Explore the potential of molten salt nuclear power technology, which aims to eliminate concerns about nuclear waste and disasters while providing nearly unlimited energy. This video discusses how ...

Liquid-fueled molten-salt reactors, another new type, could increase waste volume too. In these designs, fuel and coolant are ...

Outside of those in the Department of Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics within the College of Engineering, few know ...

A global nuclear energy resurgence is underway, driven by the need for a stable, low-carbon energy mix and massive electricity demand projections spurred by the artificial intelligence boom. Deep ...

This April, in a speech given at the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the physicist Xu Hongjie announced a breakthrough. For over a decade, his team had been working on an ...

Why it matters: A new Department of Energy pilot program is testing a faster, less traditional path for bringing advanced nuclear reactors from concept to operation, reshaping long-standing ...

Countries are racing to build new reactors. But we've barely figured out how to clean up the old ones — and the bill is ...