Vogtle 3, one of two 1,117-MW Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors Southern Nuclear Operating Co. is building in Georgia, has reached initial criticality. The event marks a pivotal milestone for the ...

First American Nuclear, a 40-employee startup currently based in Washington, says its Indiana-based Closed-Fuel Cycle Nuclear ...

Nuclear operators and technicians are now moving fuel into Plant Vogtle Unit 3 as the nuclear generating unit moves closer to entering service. During fuel load, technicians and operators from ...

Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj has today received permission from the country's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority to bring the Olkiluoto 3 EPR to first criticality and conduct low-power ...

The advanced nuclear reactor company founded by Bill Gates said it will have to delay the demonstration of its novel reactor technology because its exclusive fuel supply arrangement with Russia has ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Federal regulators have approved plans to load radioactive fuel into a second new nuclear reactor in Georgia. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Friday that Georgia Power Co. and ...

LYNCHBURG, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced today that work has commenced to fabricate the reactor core for the Pele microreactor at its BWXT Innovation Campus in ...

Nuclear technicians and operators are now moving fuel into Plant Vogtle Unit 4 as the nuclear generating unit moves closer to entering service. During fuel load, Westinghouse and Southern Nuclear are ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 18, 2014 — Scientists and engineers developing more accurate approaches to analyzing nuclear power reactors have successfully tested a new suite of computer codes that closely ...