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.

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

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

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 ...

Gov. Hochul unveiled New York's nuclear power plant project to power a million homes, which faces permit challenges while ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s intent to build a nuclear power plant — the first in the U.S. in more than 15 years — has ...

New York is home to the nation's oldest nuclear reactor - Nine Mile Point's Unit 1 - which has been around since 1969.

Uranium enrichment concentrates one specific type of the atom to create a substance that can generate massive amounts of ...

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