Red, white and glowing blue: Trump's push for new reactors reaches the finish line

A program initiated by the Trump administration has allowed small companies to rush their testing of several new nuclear reactor designs. Some worry that safety is being compromised.

Texas company races to mass produce small nuclear reactors for the AI boom

Aalo Atomics was one of 11 companies selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to participate in a pilot program with an ...

A nuclear reactor that can’t melt down? Here’s how it works

A new nuclear reactor design skips fuel entirely—eliminating meltdown risk while testing a safer future for nuclear power.
Purdue University

At the nation’s only all-digital nuclear reactor, engineers conduct the first experiments of their kind in the U.S.

Purdue University Reactor Number One has specific features that no other reactor in the U.S. has. Purdue’s reactor is ...

Nuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation

The potential deal highlights a growing trend of complex, multi-stage funding rounds that mask true entry prices.

Trump administration to loan $17 billion to speed deployment of 10 big nuclear reactors in U.S.

The loans will support the construction of five projects that each host two big nuclear reactors.

TVA clears huge hurdle in race to build America's first small nuclear reactor

The decision for the Clinch River site solidifies East Tennessee as a world leader in the race to create power from next-gen ...
Ecoticias

Canada buried a 1,050-ton slab east of Toronto to seat the first grid-scale nuclear reactor a G7 nation has ever built, and how it cools itself breaks every rule

Canada begins building the first grid scale SMR in a G7 nation, using a massive buried foundation and a reactor designed to ...

The U.S. Has Accumulated 100,000 Metric Tons of Used Nuclear Fuel. Oklo Sees It as a Massive Potential Energy Resource.

Oklo's advanced nuclear reactors could make use of America's massive stockpile of used nuclear fuel.

Holtec bets big on small nuclear reactors in its IPO filing

Nuclear giant Holtec International is betting big that its 300-megawatt small modular reactors are the future of atomic ...

U.S. company plans $1.2 billion Argentina nuclear reactor

Argentina's government announced plans to build a new nuclear reactor at the Atucha nuclear complex in a project led by ...