The Department of Energy on Tuesday announced $17.5 billion in conditional loans for utilities and energy companies to buy parts that will strengthen the commercial supply chain for nuclear reactors.

While companies in the US chase smaller footprints, there are a lot of new large reactors going up in China. It’s a tale of two nuclear industries. In China, large reactors are coming together at a ...

Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use ...

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(TNS) — Kentucky’s two largest power utilities are collaborating with a prefabricated nuclear reactor manufacturer in Maryland to explore producing nuclear energy in the commonwealth for the first ...

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The White House has announced that NASA will work with the Departments of Defense and Energy to put nuclear reactors in orbit and on the surface of the moon. Having demonstrated that it has the ...

Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor to break down hard-to-recycle forms of plastic waste using acid recovered from old car batteries, and converting it into clean hydrogen fuel and ...

Aalo Atomics has held a ceremony to unveil its completed Critical Test Reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory. The company said it expects the reactor to achieve criticality "well before" the 4 July ...

New designs mean new strategies for managing spent fuel. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on March 4 authorized staff to issue a construction permit for TerraPower’s Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 in Kemmerer, Wyoming—the first commercial reactor the ...