Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago ... whether it was possible to create and control a nuclear chain ...

The Aurora uses high-assay low-enriched uranium-235 fuel (HALEU) in a fairly unique fast reactor design – that is, it uses high-energy neutrons to maintain the nuclear chain reaction.

The American Physical Society has recognized the Graphite Reactor, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National ...

The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a former base for atomic bomb testing, has lead to a cluster of health issues.

Nuclear plant restarts at Palisades and Three Mile Island Unit 1 are a test case for the future of the US nuclear industry, a ...

If we figure out how to harness this effectively and efficiently, this is it. This is the end. This is the solution,” an expert tells us.

The Tri-City Herald went into its archives to republish this account of the reactor’s place in history. It was written ... up the world’s first full-scale nuclear plant, uncertain whether a runaway ...

Google will back the construction of seven small nuclear-power reactors in the U.S., a first-of-its-kind deal that aims to help feed the tech company’s growing appetite for electricity to power ...

Workers refined uranium in downtown St. Louis as part of the Manhattan Project, which was used in the first successful nuclear chain reaction, which took place in Chicago. But after the end of World ...

Nikitin compared the potential effects of such an incident to “severe contamination” akin to that from a “dirty bomb” — an explosive device that disperses radioactive material without triggering a ...

The Japanese and Polish governments will on Thursday sign a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in nuclear energy, Poland's industry ministry said. U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi ...

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