Santee Cooper, a big power provider in South Carolina, is in advanced talks to sell two inactive nuclear reactors to Brookfield Asset Management that could power data centers underpinning the AI boom.

“Within the framework of nuclear strategy” is the caveat—and the underlying topic of this movie. Sitting in his airplane, mulling over the book of laminated pages detailing the various attack options, the president moans to Gen. Brady, “This is insanity.” The general replies, “No, Mr. President, it’s reality.”

Furloughs hit the NNSA’s Y-12 Field Office in Oak Ridge, where 70 of 78 federal employees are waiting for the government to reopen.

The Trump administration wants to sharply speed up the construction of nuclear power plants, but fixing the industry’s bottlenecks could take years.

South Carolina's state-owned utility is looking to a private company to revive a project to build two nuclear power plants that was abandoned eight years ago, losing more than $9 billion without generating a watt of power.

Nuclear energy is staging a comeback powered by surging demand for carbon-free electricity. One company is selling super-safe fuel to advanced reactor startups.

Once again, nuclear power seemed hopeless, at least in the U.S. Yet over the same period, China built 13 similar reactors, with 33 more underway. And Beijing’s nuclear ambitions are global. China is quickly becoming the global leader in nuclear power,

In 1975, Kodak powered up the country’s first californium neutron flux multiplier (CFX). Though it couldn’t live up to the sci-fi-tinged promise of its name, it leveraged a neat trick of nuclear engineering to provide Kodak R&D with an ample stream of neutrons for materials analysis.

The Oct. 20 idling of nearly 80% of National Nuclear Security Administration personnel encourages foreign enemies and endangers the United States, the House members said in a letter written by Rep. Dina Titus,