Finland may soon become the first country to develop a permanent way to store spent nuclear fuel by burying it in tunnels ...

Chinese researchers have built the country's first nuclear battery using carbon-14, a rare isotope of carbon, which can run ...

Radioisotope thermoelectric generators do not rely on chemical reactions like the batteries in your phone. Instead, they rely on the radioactive decay of elements to produce heat and eventually ...

Everyone from the U.S. energy secretary to Big Tech touts small modular nuclear reactors as a potential answer to booming ...

Many Ways To Split Atoms Nuclear power is often associated with massive power plants, giant cooling towers, and the fear of nuclear meltdown. This is progressively changing thanks to the emergence ...

Scientists use light-emitting crystals and solar panels to turn the latent energy in nuclear waste into microbatteries.

The study, led by scientists at Ohio State University, demonstrates how ambient gamma radiation from nuclear waste can power microelectronics. While the current output is limited to small sensors, ...

A massive solar energy project is moving forward at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state, a site historically ...

Everyone from the U.S. energy secretary to Big Tech touts small modular nuclear reactors as a potential answer to booming ...

Maryland lawmakers have introduced a bill in the state legislature that sponsors say would provide an easier path to build ...

Ohio State University researchers develop a battery that converts nuclear waste into electricity using scintillator crystals ...

Small, transportable and mass-produced “microreactors” are seen as part of the future of nuclear power. And it's underway in ...