Idaho National Laboratory

The United State Department of Defense has broken ground in eastern Idaho in preparation to install and test the nation's first transportable nuclear reactor.

In the 1950, the U.S. was trying to develop a nuclear-powered engine that the Navy could use for submarines and aircraft carriers, and much of that work was done in the Idaho desert near Idaho Falls, at what would become the Naval Reactor Facility.

NuScale planned on building small modular reactors at the Idaho National Laboratory, but didn't have enough buyers to move forward.

As ambitious plans to deploy new nuclear technologies take shape around the Mountain West, a new poll shows Americans' support for nuclear energy is growing.

Dubbed E-RECOV, an electrochemical process pioneered at INL separates the recoverable elements without emissions. “The efficiency of the process is approximately 90-100%, meaning that the electrons that are put in are doing the job that we want them to do,” the lead researcher said.

The Pentagon has announced that a new nuclear design is going to be assembled in our region. It’s called Project Pele, and it aims to produce a mobile nuclear microreactor.

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A year after a massive wildfire swept across the high-desert grasslands at the Idaho National Laboratory, the research facility is figuring out how to…

In July, NASA plans to launch the next Mars rover into space. There are four goals for the Mars 2020 mission: find out if there was ever life on Mars,…