Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and four major Japanese power utilities will work together to develop a next-generation nuclear reactor that will go online in the 2030s, the company announced on Sept ...

The 500 MW prototype fast-breeder reactor is located at Kalpakkam, about 70 km south of Chennai. (Courtesy: Department of ...

Iran is adamant to complete the construction of the Arak heavy water reactor, which they call their "red line". However, the fact that Iran would acquire the capacity to produce enough plutonium to ...

For the first time in decades, thorium-based nuclear fuel is headed for fabrication and reactor testing on U.S. soil. Clean ...

A Korean research team has succeeded in processing spent resin, an intermediate-level radioactive waste from heavy water nuclear reactors, on a commercial scale suitable for industrial use, moving ...

27 February 2014 Iran's Arak Heavy Water Reactor is now 85 percent complete, Vice-Speaker of the Parliament Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi Fard said, Iranian Donya-e-eqtesad newspaper reported on Feb. 27.

KHONDAB, Iran (AP)--A heavy-water production plant officially went into operation Saturday despite U.N. demands that Iran stop the activity, which Tehran says is for peaceful purposes but Western ...

The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, told lawmakers on Sunday that Iran will restart activities at the Arak heavy-water reactor, the ISNA news agency reported. ISNA cited a ...

Israeli jets have bombed a nuclear reactor under construction in central Iran during a wave of air strikes on the seventh day of the conflict between the two countries. The Israeli military said it ...