An Amentum-led consortium has won a $207m contract to support planning and development of new nuclear reactors in the ...

NASA engineers have completed first cold-flow tests of a full-scale nuclear thermal propulsion reactor, validating designs ...

Nuclear propulsion and power technologies could unlock new frontiers in missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA has reached an important milestone advancing nuclear propulsion that could benefit ...

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 ...

A nuclear engineer breaks down the myths and realities of what would actually happen if a person fell into a nuclear reactor. This video explains the science step by step, separating Hollywood fiction ...

Color photo of the mushroom cloud from the Trinity Test in 1945, taken by Jack Aeby Eighty years ago Wednesday, on July 16, 1945, the world changed forever when the first atomic bomb was detonated in ...

College students at Kansas State University are increasingly eyeing careers in nuclear technology. So the school has relaunched a bachelor’s degree that originally blazed a trail in the U.S. for ...

Aggies have big plans for small reactors at nation's largest nuclear program. The Texas A&M campus at College Station could ...

Two senior UVM Mechanical Engineering students, Jimmy Paré and Camden Piper, are co-winners of The Prime Engineering Prize ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority is giving a $3 million endowment to the University of Tennessee's nuclear engineering department. This funding aims to advance clean energy, recruit faculty and ...

Rolls-Royce SMR, the company tasked with building the next generation of nuclear reactors in ...

A nuclear engineer reacts to a wild scenario inspired by XKCD and explores what would actually happen if NASCAR had no rules at all. Using physics, engineering limits, and real-world constraints, this ...