American nuclear energy company has completed irradiation tests of its ANEEL fuel that combines thorium and uranium and could ...

Radiant’s facility in Tennessee moves closer to reality as the NRC begins an expedited technical review of its microreactor ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems, the Massachusetts-based company that grew out of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, has ...

The science experimenters at TKOR build a detailed glowing replica of Iron Man’s arc reactor, combining creativity with simple electronics.

MIT postdoctoral associate Arunav Kumar discusses his work on magnetohydrodynamic stability, plasma control in tokamaks, and ...

MIT spinoff Commonwealth Fusion Systems has made many promises and is close to realizing a big one: commercial fusion power ...

A memo released by the Trump administration on Tuesday detailed a goal of having a nuclear reactor on the moon’s surface by 2030, a move that furthers the United States’ quest for supremacy in space ...

The agency wants to fly it to Mars by the end of 2028. Experts say that’s … ambitious. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you ...

A California-headquartered advanced nuclear energy company said it has received U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) approval of the Documented Safety Analysis for the company’s Mark-0 reactor. Antares, which ...

TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque displays a fuel assembly model for its planned small nuclear reactors in 2022. (Elaine Thompson/AP) Something shocking happened this week: Bureaucrats approved a project ...

TerraPower’s project in Wyoming, which uses novel technology, is the first new commercial reactor to receive federal approval in nearly a decade. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington A novel type ...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah — The Pentagon and the Energy Department for the first time airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is U.S. potential to ...