El Segundo-based nuclear startup Valar Atomics announced Monday that it has achieved criticality, an essential step in nuclear reactor development. The milestone comes with support from one of the ...

Matthew Hole receives funding from the Australian government through the Australian Research Council and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), and the Simons Foundation.

Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a new system that, when fully developed, would use fusion to eliminate most of the transuranic waste produced by nuclear power plants. The ...