Southern Company's Plant Vogtle nuclear power complex made history in 2023 by bringing the first new U.S. nuclear reactor ...

In the proverbial shadow of the Naughton Power Plant, a station in Kemmerer, Wyoming, that will stop burning coal at the end ...

Five main types of nuclear reactors are in operation, as shown in the chart below. One quarter of the world’s reactors have load factors of more than 90 percent and nearly two thirds do better ...

The most common reactor type is the Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR), which was originally developed in the United States to power nuclear submarines, and is now used in 20 countries.

SiGA is a silicon carbide (SiC) composite material that forms the basis for the development of nuclear reactor fuel rods that ...

Small modular reactors, or SMRs, are part of a new generation of advanced nuclear technology that could potentially play a role in increasing the United States' supply of carbon-neutral energy.

Advanced nuclear reactors need a different type of uranium. Here’s 4 things to know . Questions about the fuel, called high-assay low-enriched uranium, remain ...

Most nuclear power reactors use Low-Enriched Uranium (LEU) which is enriched only to about 3% to 5% U-235. We’ve known this for a while. The hurdles are only political and bureaucratic.