NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully launched today from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The rover, which will be powered by a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator developed at the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, will land on Mars to begin exploration in Februar

If the US supplies nuclear energy equipment and technology to support a share of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected requirement for new nuclear power, US export revenues could range between $1.3 trillion and $1.9 trillion, a report prepared by consulting firm UxC for the Washing

Unit 5 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China's Jiangsu province has attained a sustained chain reaction for the first time. The 1080 MWe domestically-designed ACPR1000 pressurised water reactor is expected to be connected to the grid later this year, after which it will enter commercial operat

A ceremony was held yesterday within the ITER Assembly Hall to mark the official start of the assembly of the tokamak fusion device of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor at Cadarache in south-eastern France. Assembly of the tokamak is expected to take five years to complete.

De bouw van het grootste kernfusieproject ter wereld is vandaag van start gegaan. De 20 miljard euro kostende reactor in Zuid-Frankrijk genaamd Iter is een ambitieus project, waar landen uit de EU aan werken samen met de VS, Japan, China, Zuid-Korea en Rusland.

The UK has launched a GBP3.9 million (USD5.0 million) competition to find innovative ways to sort and segregate radioactive waste at some of its oldest nuclear sites. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority - including Sellafield Ltd and Magnox Ltd - has teamed up with Innovate UK to call on companies