The companies also say that the proposed pebble-bed reactors are inherently safer because they are not pressurized, and because they are designed to circulate cooling fluids without the help of ...

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents agreed to notify regulators at the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...

Its mission includes establishing four new experimental facilities and two large-scale reactor test beds by 2028, with plans to complete two advanced technology experiments by 2030. The eVinci ...

NRIC, a key initiative under the DOE, is dedicated to fast-tracking the development and deployment of advanced nuclear technologies like the eVinci microreactor. Its mission includes establishing four ...

Kairos Power FHR (KP-FHR) is a novel advanced reactor technology that leverages TRISO fuel in pebble form combined with a low-pressure fluoride salt coolant. The technology uses an efficient and ...

The company in question counts at least two South Africans in its scientific and engineering leadership as well as a South ...

2, 1942, in a squash court under the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. Nicknamed “Chicago Pile-1,” the world’s first nuclear reactor kicked off the Atomic Age and has a complicated ...

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has constructed a fusion reactor from parts it 3D-printed and bought off the shelf. It fits on a kitchen table. It’s a simple-sounding machine—a glass tube ...

The power needs of Google’s insatiable data centers might eventually be met by small modular nuclear reactors — emphasis on might and eventually. Search giant Google and startup Kairos Power ...

Big Tech has been going nuclear over its AI data centers, turning to energy startups to build nuclear reactors to meet the energy demands of artificial intelligence. This ranges from Amazon (AMZN ...