Is it still possible for a nuclear-powered carrier to remain concealed in the age of round-the-clock satellite spying? The recent return of the USS Carl Vinson to the Arabian Sea, corroborated by open ...

The partnership aims to demonstrate high-power nuclear electric propulsion technology in a flight program by the end of the decade and commercialize the technology in the 2030s. “Nuclear ...

Richard Dinan, CEO and found of Pulsar Fusion, believes that they can harness nuclear fusion power directly into the engine within just four years, which could make this technology useful in ...

A research team led by Prof. Sun Youwen from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

A Washington-based company has come up with a nuclear-powered engine concept that could cut the journey time to Mars to as little as three months in future space missions.

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has designed a new thermal nuclear engine it says could carry astronauts to Mars in just three months—and back to Earth in the same amount of time.

Nuclear thermal propulsion is a technology that can double the ... NASA and DARPA said they aim to test the first DRACO nuclear engine as soon as 2027. “With the help of this new technology, ...

Yet SMR technology has had a slow start because of research, capital, and regulatory costs. In fact, cost was a major factor in NuScale Power’s 2023 decision to scrap its planned SMR plant in Idaho.

Off the Siberian coast, not far from Alaska, a Russian ship has been docked at port for four years. The Akademik Lomonosov, the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, sends energy to around ...

This new technology for nuclear power could help fuel the AI revolution. By Lakshmi Varanasi. A Swiss startup says it has pioneered a way to reduce radioactive waste from nuclear plants ...

Alternative ways of powering, cooling, and constructing reactors could help get more nuclear energy on the grid. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter ...

Some members of the nuclear industry applauded the reform. "The safety regulations that we put in place were largely reactionary to Three Mile Island," says Isaiah Taylor, CEO and Founder of Valar ...