A small start-up in New Zealand claims it has created plasma, the first step towards nuclear fusion, in under two years and ...

the incredible energy released by nuclear fission inside the reactor’s core is used to heat water, which generates high pressure steam that powers turbines connected to electrical generators.

AI’s thirst for energy sealed the deal between Microsoft and Constellation on the plant, where memories of a partial meltdown ...

About 880 tons of highly radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors ... The drone cameras could ...

Traditional nuclear reactors are expensive and can take decades to build. Compact modular alternatives are cheaper, and can ...

A robot tasked with navigating the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has successfully retrieved a small sample of melted nuclear fuel ... from the reactor core could eventually ...

About 880 tons of melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors ... The fuel in the worst-damaged No. 1 reactor mostly fell from the core to the bottom of its primary containment ...

The mission is not over until the sample's radioactivity is below a set standard and safely placed into a container ...

Inside Matthias’ package was a small ... the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor. Photo courtesy DOE The core sits on 23-foot-thick concrete slab. It’s covered with a 10-inch cast ...

Officials hoped to film the core’s bottom to find out ... About 880 tons of highly radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors. Critics say the 30- to 40-year ...

TOKYO (AP) — A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged reactors at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...