NextEra Energy has taken the first steps to open the Duane Arnold power plant, Iowa’s only nuclear power plant, by late 2028. Duane Arnold operated in Palo, Iowa, from 1974 until 2020, when a derecho, ...

The big three Arizona utilities are studying whether to try and build a second nuclear power plant in the state.

The blaze at Moss Landing in Monterey County, California, may have been worse because of the plant’s design and the types of ...

A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

[Photo: Nic Coury/Bloomberg/Getty Images] Days before President Donald Trump returned ... He was referring to the 1979 ...

It is what powers our Sun as atomic nuclei are merged to create massive amounts of energy, which is the opposite of the fission process used in atomic weapons and nuclear power plants, where the ...

LAST week, the Chronicle was invited for a look inside Anglesey’s old Wylfa power station ... Wylfa was the last and largest of 11 UK plants based on the Magnox design that paved the way for the ...

Fusion differs from fission (the technique currently used in nuclear power plants), because the former ... in the 1950s by Soviet physicists. Inside, under the influence of extreme heat and ...

In a move that could redefine decades of US foreign policy, President Donald Trump casually referred to North Korea as a “nuclear power” during an impromptu Oval Office exchange with reporters ...

Its decision comes as the tech industry, which is rapidly building power-hungry data centers, has begun looking to nuclear plants for their ability to provide lots of electricity around the clock ...