Small nuclear reactors are pitched as cheaper, safer, faster and easier to finance than their conventional counterparts. Hype around them is building fast, but some experts warn it ignores fundamental ...

The utility that operates the Fukushima plant that melted down in 2011 restarted a reactor at the world’s largest nuclear ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company has suspended the operations of the No.6 reactor at its nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture after a control-rod alarm went off.

Restart of No 6 reactor at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant suspended after malfunction related to control rods.

Japan shut down 54 reactors after the Fukushima meltdown, but momentum has gathered under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to ...

The restart of the world's largest nuclear power plant was suspended in Japan Thursday just hours after the process began, ...

In May, President Trump sat in the Oval Office flanked by executives from America’s nuclear power industry. “It’s a hot industry. It’s a brilliant industry,” the president said from behind the ...

(Reuters) -A huge nuclear deal announced by the Trump administration earlier this week provides a multi-billion-dollar incentive for the U.S. government to issue permits and approvals for new ...

Small modular reactor startups are betting that mass manufacturing will help them bring costs down. But are they underestimating the challenge?

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

Over 50 small reactors generating up to 500 megawatts of electricity have been built over the past half-century. Their median build time has been eight years. By contrast, large reactors have been ...