Top U.S. officials overseeing the nation's electric grid and stockpile of nuclear weapons visited Chattanooga on Thursday and Friday to discuss Tennessee's central role in scientific research and ...

What was once the site of uranium enrichment facilities used for the Manhattan Project is now set to become the site of the world’s first mass-produced nuclear reactor. The sites, K-27 and K-29, were ...

Clean up efforts at Y-12's demolished Alpha-2 facility, one of the facilities that helped create the first atomic bombs, are ...

It was perhaps the most French ever spoken by a Tennessee state senator at a public event. "Bienvenue, mon ami. Nous sommes heureux que vous soyez ici," Sen. Ken Yager said in a practiced cadence.

More than two decades ago, the U.S. Department of Energy set an ambitious vision for the East Tennessee Technology Park, a shuttered uranium enrichment complex dating back to the World War II ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Wednesday marks 80 years since the Manhattan Project‘s Trinity test, and the American Nuclear Society is commemorating Oak Ridge’s role in bringing World War II to an end.

We’re at the start of a new Manhattan Project. That’s what U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said in a release posted on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) website on Saturday. Wright made the ...