At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, a half-dozen workers are making what appear to be gray billiard balls.

Silicon Valley is betting on a nuclear energy renaissance. But history shows why nuclearegulation is essential.

The US government is rushing nuclear reactor deployment on federal sites to fuel its global AI race. But it may come at considerable costs and safety risks.

It was to this committee that the panel headed by David E. Lilienthal, now chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, presented in March, 1946, the Acheson-Lilienthal report — the ...

Learn more about the major players and occurrences that led to the development of the Hydrogen bomb. This feature details the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, including its formation, activities and ...

As President Trump seeks to cut clean energy funding across the country, nuclear energy emerges as a rare area of bipartisan ...

The United States and 21 other countries have pledged to triple their respective nuclear energy capacities by 2050. Although tripling their nuclear energy output will go a long way in helping ...