The executive order directed the Department of Energy to have three different reactor designs reach criticality in a bit over ...

Antares Nuclear's Mark-0 reactor has completed a zero-power fuelled criticality demonstration, becoming the first reactor to ...

Antares Nuclear Inc.'s Mark-0—a sodium heat-pipe-cooled microreactor fueled by high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) ...

The Energy Department says a small nuclear reactor under development at a national lab has reached a crucial milestone that ...

The microreactor from Antares, a private nuclear technology company, had a successful nuclear fission reaction for the first ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The 1945 Trinity nuclear test fused desert sand and bomb-tower materials into trinitite—a glassy substance unlike anything humans had created before.

A revisit to the historic Trinity nuclear test reveals how the world's first atomic explosion in 1945 created a rare radioactive mineral called trinitite.