Expediting next-gen reactor testing To expedite the creation of these fuel facilities, the DOE is using the same authority it employs to fast-track the testing of nuclear reactors. This new fuel ...

Executive Order 14299, "Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies For National Security," was issued on May 23, 2025, and instructed that "The Secretary of Defense, through the Secretary of ...

ABILENE, Texas — Bolstered by $3.2 million from a former Midland oilman, this West Texas city of 130,000 people is helping the Lone Star State lead a national nuclear energy resurgence. Doug ...

Nuclear giant Westinghouse Electric declared bankruptcy in 2017, largely due to hiccups in a single reactor model — the AP1000.

A high-stakes lawsuit against the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission could force the agency to relinquish some of its authority over licensing smaller nuclear reactors to individual states, at a ...

The Biden administration called for tripling U.S. nuclear capacity to meet growing energy demand, driven in part by Big Tech. The administration approved a loan of up to $1.5 billion to restart a ...

They were the first U.S. nuclear projects to feature the Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors, the same Generation III+ pressurized water reactors that would be installed in VC Summer 2 and 3.

These small modular nuclear reactors — Loszak called them microreactors — are still in their testing phase. But they are a key part of the built-to-order nuclear power plants Aalo wants to ...

The towers are 372 feet tall. Hundreds of analog switches, dials and levers covered a soft green panel in the control room of the renamed Unit 1 nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island on Wednesday.

The 580-megawatt pressurized water reactor is located in Ontario, N.Y. about 20 miles east of Rochester and has been around since 1970, making it the second oldest nuclear power reactor in the U.S.