New designs mean new strategies for managing spent fuel. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You ...

There is a widespread misapprehension that controlling nuclear fusion is hard. In fact so long as you are not hoping to use the process to produce electricity, controlling fusion is easy. Indeed, it ...

From molten salt to TRISO fuel, here’s how technological advancements could upend an old power technology. Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive ...

You might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities spanning hundreds of acres. Nuclear microreactors, by contrast, could sit on land the size of a football field and power a whole town.

The UK government has announced plans to build more than a dozen small nuclear reactors across the country, ushering in what it calls a new “golden age” for nuclear power. One of the ultimate goals is ...

As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that ...