New guidance for private industry plus a new test bed facility are set to speed widespread nuclear energy development in microreactors.

They dig a hole or have a bunker in place and they go underground,” Colorado School of Mines Professor Thomas Albrecht said ...

You might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities spanning hundreds of acres. Nuclear microreactors, by contrast, could sit on land the size of a football field and power a whole town.

As of now, “nuclear energy” in practical contexts refers to fission, or splitting heavy particles to generate massive loads of energy. The goal is to eventually transition to fusion, which combines ...

WASHINGTON — The Army will place commercial nuclear microreactors on some of its bases in the coming years under a private-public partnership it has dubbed the Janus Program, Army Secretary Dan ...

Partnership combines cutting-edge microreactors with a global leader in AI server infrastructure to address surging energy ...

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westinghouse Electric Company and CORE POWER today announced the formalization of a cooperative agreement for the design and development of a floating nuclear ...

As if the U.S. grids weren’t stressed enough, AI data centers threaten to overwhelm them further with their massive energy ...

The new nuclear age of small modular reactors may not have materialized yet, but that's not stopping the US Department of Energy from getting to work on even smaller, more modular reactors with a ...

Canada is forging ahead with an ambitious Nuclear Energy Strategy, announcing a $40 million investment by the Department of ...

Unfinished nuclear reactor core in a modern nuclear power plant under construction. getty The Trump administration has taken another step to convince businesses to invest in nuclear power by starting ...