Neighboring Oak Ridge, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville has one of the country's top nuclear engineering programs.

Texas A&M hosted a nuclear open house, giving community leaders a closer look at how nuclear energy is impacting their region ...

Nuclear engineering has demonstrated vast potential for growth in power generation, medicine, industrial processes, plasmas, space technologies and national defense. The field will become even more ...

TVA invests $3 million into the University of Tennessee's nuclear engineering program to enhance research and workforce ...

College students at Kansas State University are increasingly eyeing careers in nuclear technology. So the school has ...

Color photo of the mushroom cloud from the Trinity Test in 1945, taken by Jack Aeby Eighty years ago Wednesday, on July 16, 1945, the world changed forever when the first atomic bomb was detonated in ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority has invested a $3 million endowment to fund University of Tennessee's the Department of ...

A nuclear engineer reacts to the popular Chernobyl claim that pressing the AZ-5 button could have prevented the disaster.

Jimmy Carter was a former Navy nuclear engineer who established the Department of Energy and became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Oak Ridge, but his impact on the nuclear energy industry ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Underground on Purdue University’s campus is the only nuclear reactor in Indiana. Although used just for research purposes — the total energy the reactor generates powers about ...

Drawing on her engineering background, hands-on experience in reactor operations and a deep knowledge of energy policy and regulatory issues, Korsnick aims to increase understanding of nuclear ...

A nuclear thermal propulsion engine could cut the travel time in half for future space explorers racing to the Red Planet.