My father was born in 1908, the same year General Motors was founded. He became an engineer and worked for GM for 40 years. I was born just a few months after Enrico Fermi first demonstrated a ...

A small US nuclear startup has quietly crossed a threshold that most young fission companies only talk about, achieving a self-sustaining chain reaction in a test system without ever boiling water or ...

Clarity is key on most issues relating to nuclear weapons, and testing them is no exception. America’s adversaries are carrying out low-level nuclear tests and gaining an advantage over the United ...

The United States maintains an arsenal of thousands of nuclear weapons, but it hasn't tested one in decades. Instead, the U.S. is using simulations and experiments to see if the nukes still work.

TOKYO (AP) — The world’s largest nuclear power plant restarted Wednesday in north-central Japan for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, as resource-poor Japan accelerates atomic ...