NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...

THE control of atomic weapons and the development of atomic energy for industrial use are inextricably intertwined. Only through continuity in policy and a constantly controlled process can we ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: To get a small reactor to fly, you essentially strip it of shielding and use its heat output to expand air instead of burning fuel to produce thrust. Little shielding ...

Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation, San Francisco, California, is being awarded a $359.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification for nuclear propulsion work at the Bettis Atomic Power ...

Everyone these days wants to talk about Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) when it comes to nuclear power. The industry seems to have pinned its hopes for a ‘nuclear renaissance’ on the exciting new ...

What is the commercial future of atomic energy? To find out, the Atomic Industrial Forum, a nonprofit organization of topflight businessmen headed by Detroit Edison Co.’s President Walker L. Cisler,* ...

The Navy has hopes of harnessing atomic power for ship propulsion. Announcement of the signing of a $103,000 contract—to study the possibilities at St. Louis’ Washington University—battened down the ...

The need to regulate nuclear-powered ships is a matter that will only grow more pressing with the passage of time. After decades in which the world’s only nuclear-powered merchant ship, the NS ...

DUBAI, March 20 (Reuters) - A nuclear-powered U.S. submarine and another U.S. vessel collided on Friday in the Strait of Hormuz but there was no damage to the atomic propulsion unit, the U.S. Navy ...

* U.S. nuclear submarine in collision in Strait of Hormuz * Submarine hits second U.S. Navy vessel, 15 hurt * No damage to sub's atomic plant (Adds details, background) By Raissa Kasolowsky DUBAI, ...