WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Energy expects to begin announcing by December 31 which companies will take about 19.7 metric tons of surplus Cold War-era plutonium for eventual ...

Here’s something wild happening in Washington right now. The government is opening its driest vault—not for war, mind you, but for electricity. I’m referring, naturally, to Cold War-era weapons-grade ...

Meta Platforms has found a nuclear power supplier: the company Terrapower, founded by Bill Gates. It plans to supply 2 to 8 ...

The Energy Department announced contracts for three reactor fuel companies in an effort to undercut Russia's dominance in the market. The post Energy Department makes $2.7 billion bet on nuclear ...

Instead of burying plutonium and pretending it has disappeared, we can put it to work. With advanced fast reactors, like those being developed by private American innovators, stored fuel will be ...

A person reflects in the window of the U.S. Department of Energy, with the official portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump on the wall, following a partial government shutdown in Washington, D.C., ...