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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The Energy Challenges Facing Both Nations Both the United States and South Korea face significant yet distinct energy challenges. In the United States, ... the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The siren song of spent nuclear fuel reprocessing beckons again, selling a sweet melody that, actually, threatens to stymie hopes of a nuclear energy revival in the United States. A tantalizing ...

The United States has work to do. The commission recommended “fully and urgently executing the U.S. nuclear modernization program of record (POR),” which includes replacement of all nuclear delivery ...