Fireplaces are cozy until it’s time to shovel out the ashes. Nuclear power has the same problem: abundant, reliable energy ...

In today’s power market, where developers give greater weight to first cost and equipment reliability than to life cycle costs, new nuclear power plants based on the expensive light-water reactor ...

Beneath the stands of the University of Chicago’s athletic field, the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction transpired in 1942. In a wooden frame, graphite blocks interspersed with uranium ...