Conceived at the height of Cold War tension, the Lockheed CL-1201 was an audacious plan for a nuclear-powered aircraft with a ...

The U.S. Navy’s Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers are the largest and most technologically advanced warships ever built, ...

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Uranium enrichment concentrates one specific type of the atom to create a substance that can generate massive amounts of ...

Investors are pouring billions into fusion companies, encouraged by breakthroughs that they contend have put a sustained ...

A primary target for any U.S. involvement would likely be the Fordow fuel enrichment site, buried deep underground, which ...

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday night approved attack plans against Iran but hasn't made a final decision to take ...

Submarines are probably more associated with nuclear power than any other vessel, including aircraft carriers. The first nuclear-powered sub — the USS Nautilus — was commissioned in 1954 as ...

The Navy did not have a nuclear reactor large enough to power a carrier by itself, so it built Enterprise with eight S5G reactors. The next-generation Nimitz class relied on just two reactors ...

The massive 1,106-foot-long carrier displaces a staggering 100,000 tons fully loaded and is powered by two new generation nuclear reactors. TAGGED: aircraft carriers Gerald R. Ford class aircraft ...