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The federal government hopes former coal towns will help the nuclear industry grow, by taking on the decades-long challenge of storing radioactive waste

Gov. Bill Lee has announced that a France-based company specializing in nuclear power and renewable energy has selected a site in eastern Tennessee

New devices collect biometric data to estimate core body temperature—an elevated one is a symptom of heat exhaustion—and prompt workers to take cool-down breaks.

As global temperatures rise and summer months bring record high temperatures, employers are exploring wearable technologies to keep workers safe

Not many people know the world's first detonation of an atomic bomb was on U.S. soil

What Oscar winner Oppenheimer gets right — and wrong — about the threat of nuclear weapons.

For one of them, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public

In a radio interview, House Speaker Cameron Sexton is putting some of the blame on the Senate. Lt. Gov. Randy McNally is pushing back.

Bronzeville's Roberts Temple Church of God In Christ was the location for Emmett Till's 1955 funeral.

The U.S. feared Hitler could make an atomic bomb.

The shells of turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles keep growing as long as the animals live—and some of them live a remarkably long time.

Who was Robert Oppenheimer's brother? This is what to know about Frank Oppenheimer, whether he was a communist, what happened to him after the Manhattan Project, and more.

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — The movie about a man who changed the course of the world's history by shepherding the development of the first atomic bomb is expected to be a blockbuster, dramatic and full of suspense. On the sidelines will be a community downwind from the testing site in

An upcoming movie about a man who changed the course of the world's history by shepherding the development of the first atomic bomb is expected to be a blockbuster. But for a community downwind of the New Mexico testing site, director Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" will be painful. New Mexicans who were exposed to radiation from the world's first atomic blast during World War II's top-secret Manhattan Project…

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The ORAU Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity chronicles the scientific and commercial history of radioactivity and radiation. It has been deemed the official repository for historical radiological instruments by the Health Physics Society, and is located at the Professional Training Programs (PTP) training facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

If you're a California energy technology company building a nuclear reactor in Tennessee, does it make sense to set up — and expand — research, development and manufacturing in New Mexico? If you're Kairos Power, then the answer is 'yes.' Headquartered in Alameda, Calif., Kairos Power wants to revolutionize how nuclear power is produced. To do that, it's building a low-power, fission-based demonstration reactor in…

General Fusion has demonstrated plasma energy confinement times, plasma temperatures, and compression system performance that support meeting its goal of 10 keV (100 million degrees Celsius) in the company's integrated Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) demonstration, being built to 70 percent scale of a commercial machine at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's Culham Campus.

The transformative bill provides the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push.

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