Why does the government want the UK to use more nuclear power? In November 2024, the UK and 30 other countries signed a global pledge to triple their nuclear capacity by 2050.

What discoveries led to the use of nuclear power? When did the first plant come online? Test your knowledge with this WSJ quiz.

American support for nuclear power, which plummeted following the 2011 Fukushima accident in Japan, has largely recovered.

Nuclear power offers a way out: plants like Three Mile Island can deliver hundreds of megawatts of power without producing greenhouse gas emissions. New nuclear plants could do still more ...

A new bipartisan bill speeds up the timeline for building new nuclear reactors in Wisconsin, which state leaders say will be ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has directed the state’s public electric utility, the New York Power Authority, to add at ...

In a first-of-its-kind agreement, Google will purchase electricity from a nuclear fusion power plant. But the technology ...

How an unused nuclear power plant became home to a world-class acoustics lab These scientists have taken extreme measures to get away from noise.

Trump administration officials are crafting executive orders to expedite the approval and construction of nuclear power plants across the US, a bid to meet surging electricity demand.

When used as a working fluid in a thermal power plant, this offers a number of potential advantages, such as the higher density requiring smaller turbine blades, and the potential for higher heat ...

How does nuclear power work? In non-military reactors, nuclear power is generated by bombarding uranium atoms with much smaller neutron particles.