The U.S. Department of Energy was created in 1977 by merging two agencies with different missions: the Atomic Energy Commission, which developed, tested and maintained the nation’s nuclear weapons, ...
A few years after the 1942 Chicago Pile-1, the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reactor in a man-made reactor, an experimental breeder reactor at a site in Idaho, generated the first electricity ...
Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major Gen. Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...
US-Argentine firm Meitner Energy will invest US$1.2 billion in a 300-megawatt modular reactor at the Atucha site, the government announced on Tuesday.; News comes as the National Atomic Energy ...