The submarine will undergo further trials before delivery to the French Navy later this year.

For the past half century, successive Presidential administrations and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have thwarted the ...

The nuclear reactor aboard France’s fourth Suffren-class nuclear-powered attack submarine has been started for the first time, marking a major milestone in the vessel’s path toward operational service ...

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Veterans of the U.S. Navy's nuclear propulsion program are bringing their expertise to the Department of Energy's High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, applying the same ...

BWX Technologies, a Lynchburg-based manufacturer of nuclear components and fuel, announced Thursday that it has been awarded a $174 million contract from the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program to ...

The Idaho Cleanup Project is progressing with deactivation and demolition of two historic prototypes at the Naval Reactors ...

A pair of nuclear reactors that have propelled a U.S. Navy supercarrier to hot spots around the world for half a century could end up repurposed to power a data center in Tennessee. HGP Intelligent ...

HFIR reactor operators working from a motorized bridge use hand tools that are 30 feet long to work on the reactor core submerged in a pool 17 feet deep. Veterans of the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion ...