Faced with the need to cut carbon emissions, and an increasing energy demand to power AI, companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon are investing in nuclear, from restarting Three Mile Island, to creating "small modular reactors.

A new report skewers claim ‘the world is going nuclear’ and nuclear ‘newcomers’ will save the industry from its decades-long decline.

Everyone should understand that if the liberal order falls, the nonproliferation regime would fall with it. And the powers rushing for nukes then would be newly orphaned friends of the United States who are no longer convinced they can rely on American security guarantees, and might even have to fear American coercion.

The nuclear shadow has precluded large-scale war between nuclear states. A fear of mutual destruction helped keep the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States from escalating to direct conflict,

The world is witnessing a nuclear energy resurgence, with debates focusing on whether the future will be dominated by small modular reactors, new megaprojects, or the revitalization of existing nuclear plants.

After inheriting a vast nuclear arsenal post-Soviet Union collapse, Ukraine chose to relinquish it, motivated by financial and geopolitical factors. T

Aiming to jump start a long-dormant nuclear energy industry, a state House lawmaker is proposing to create taxpayer-funded incentive programs to build nuclear power plants in Texas. State Rep. Cody Harris,

The most likely candidate to obtain nuclear weapons in the near future is Iran —although Trump has said he will not allow nuclear-armed Israel's main adversary to obtain them and has ramped up pressure to try to force it into negotiations, while maintaining a military option.

Tons of radioactive refuse go into temporary storage every year, and new efforts to store nuclear waste away from reactor sites are getting pushback.

NuScale Power (NYSE: SMR) has been a divisive stock since its public debut in May 2022. The bulls were impressed by the disruptive potential of its small modular reactors (SMRs) to change the status quo in the nuclear power industry while the bears claimed that its business model was unsustainable,

Facing spiking energy demand, U.S. states are pressing for ways to build new power plants faster as policymakers try to protect residents from higher electric bills and keep their economies on track.

Developer TerraPower and contractor Bechtel will work under union pact to build a proposed 345-MW sodium-cooled fast nuclear reactor in Wyoming.