The Energy Department will let utilities tap government funds to kick-start reactor orders.

Earnings call BWXT delivered a standout Q1 2026, with revenue up 26% YoY (11% organic), adjusted EBITDA up 14%, and EPS up 22%, all surpassing expectations. Robust backlog growth (up 77% YoY to $8.7B) ...

From financial dashboards to factory-based assembly, utilities and their contractors are deploying new tools and processes to improve project cost performance. In decades past, the decision to pursue ...

Will Denver International Airport be the site of Colorado’s first nuclear power station in the 36 years since the shutdown of the Ft. Saint Vrain reactor in 1989? That’s what airport officials want to ...

Westinghouse, the Pennsylvania-based nuclear developer, is discussing a plan to deploy 10 large-scale nuclear reactors with US federal officials and industry stakeholders. According to a detailed ...

President Donald Trump signed orders to overhaul the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and speed up reactor deployment in the U.S. Nuclear stocks are rallying in response. Nuclear power stocks surged ...

“We have opinions, we make observations, we change our opinions.” Stephen Senn, Dicing with Death, 2003. The purpose of this review paper is to inform debate and provide snapshot opinions about ...

This Spring I attended a private conference on the energy transition that was hosted by a major bank. There I learned more about small modular reactors (SMRs). This is a promising new nuclear ...

The United States is shuttering plants at 3 times the rate it is building new ones, owing to the regulatory environment as well as the electrical market which has been distorted by enormous subsidies ...

Umair Irfan was a correspondent at Vox writing about climate change, energy policy, and science. He is a regular contributor to the radio program Science Friday. Prior to Vox, he was a reporter for ...

Domestic power reactors are tightly regulated by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in all phases of their life cycle—design, construction, operations, and decommissioning. The NRC is ...