Leading players have significant financial backing already lined up, often from technology companies and future customers.

The world has relied largely on the same pressurized-water reactor technology for the past 70 years, but those plants have proven incredibly expensive to build in the U.S. in the 21st century.

NTPC, India's top power producer, is seeking global partners to build large nuclear reactors with about 15 gigawatts (GW) ...

The majority of nuclear power plants around the world currently use pressurized water reactors (PWRs). In these, water is used as a coolant and is pumped under high pressure to the reactor core. There ...

High temperatures and ionizing radiation create extremely corrosive environments inside a nuclear reactor. To design ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Two decades after the landmark India-U.S. civil nuclear deal was signed, its commercial potential is finally ...

It's a concept that seems a bit odd at first, but it's one that provides all sorts of advantages over the common pressurized water reactors in use today. Uranium Salts There are several different ...

The US Department of Energy has approved Holtec International to transfer small modular reactor (SMR) technology to India, ...

The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

Chemists report that radiation-induced chemical reactions may help mitigate the corrosion of metals in a new type of nuclear reactor cooled by molten salts.