Despite public opposition and the memory of the Fukushima disaster, Japan's government has approved a new energy plan aiming ...

The biggest nuclear power plant in the United States is not a single hulking reactor, but a sprawling complex whose scale is measured in gigawatts and square miles. Its turbines quietly push out ...

BYRON, Ill. (WGN) — On any given day, 50-80 percent of the electricity produced and used in Illinois comes from nuclear energy. In fact, Illinois is the nation’s largest producer of nuclear power.

The award winning OpenMC software package is helping researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Massachusetts ...

At 8 o’clock in the morning on 24 June 2025, as part of a worldwide emergency preparedness and response exercise, an email alert lit up monitors inside the Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC) at the ...

What was achieved at COP30 - the 30th UN Climate Change Conference, held in Belém, Brazil - and what role did nuclear energy play? Here's an assessment from Jonathan Cobb, World Nuclear Association ...

Nuclear power seems to be having a moment. As the Trump administration methodically throws up roadblocks to slow, if not stop, carbon-free renewable solar and wind power, carbon-free nuclear appears ...

A growing number of energy experts and elected officials say the United States should begin building nuclear power plants again to meet the growing needs of artificial intelligence and data centers.

For the second consecutive year, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory have been named to the American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear News’ 40 Under 40 list. Nuclear engineers Amanda Bachmann and ...