Silicon Valley is betting on a nuclear energy renaissance. But history shows why nuclearegulation is essential.

Learn more about the major players and occurrences that led to the development of the Hydrogen bomb. This feature details the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, including its formation, activities and ...

It was to this committee that the panel headed by David E. Lilienthal, now chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, presented in March, 1946, the Acheson-Lilienthal report — the ...

A representative from the Department of Government Efficiency told the chair of the U.S. agency tasked with oversight of nuclear reactors that it expected the agency to provide a “rubber stamp” ...

Subcommittee Chairman Burlison announces a hearing on the future of nuclear energy, focusing on SMRs and MMRs in the U.S.

The United States and 21 other countries have pledged to triple their respective nuclear energy capacities by 2050. Although tripling their nuclear energy output will go a long way in helping ...

The siren song of spent nuclear fuel reprocessing beckons again, selling a sweet melody that, actually, threatens to stymie hopes of a nuclear energy revival in the United States. A tantalizing ...

The United States has work to do. The commission recommended “fully and urgently executing the U.S. nuclear modernization program of record (POR),” which includes replacement of all nuclear delivery ...