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Fast reactors use fast-moving neutrons to make better use of nuclear fuel and offer several advantages over water-cooled commercial reactors.

One year ago, the Office of Electricity’s Grid Storage Launchpad was a new building full of sparkling new laboratories with new, unused equipment. Today, the 93,000-square-foot facility is bustling with researchers who are working to develop robust, affordable energy storage solutions to help bolster the nation’s electricity grid.

With his Early Career award, Matthias Schindler developed theoretical tools to help us understand the processes inside of protons and neutrons.

The Office of Electricity has announced $8 million in funding and technical assistance through its Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership (C-MAP) program. The new projects will reach 35 towns and villages.

Six things everyone should know about nuclear-powered rocket engines.

Marian Jandel at the University of Massachusetts Lowell is obtaining precise nuclear data measurements to advance our knowledge of neutron reactions.

Gaute Hagen used his 2013 Early Career Research Program award to investigate state-of-the-art computations of weak processes in nuclei.

The Department of Energy teamed up with the Electric Power Research Institute to lead a research project focused on “high burnup” spent nuclear fuel.

The Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory is the largest and most powerful research reactor in the world, helping to advance nuclear technologies.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright is advancing President Trump’s commitment to reinvigorating America’s coal industry by renewing the National Coal Council charter, a Federal Advisory Committee that was terminated during the Biden administration.