Small nuclear reactors are pitched as cheaper, safer, faster and easier to finance than their conventional counterparts. Hype around them is building fast, but some experts warn it ignores fundamental ...

Over 50 small reactors generating up to 500 megawatts of electricity have been built over the past half-century. Their median build time has been eight years. By contrast, large reactors have been ...

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.

Terrestrial Energy Inc. develops molten salt reactors with a $6.7 target and Project TETRA to meet data center demand. Read why IMSR stock is a hold.

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, could be home to a molten salt reactor once again if Google-backed Kairos Power has its way.… The small modular reactor startup, along with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), ...

A new portable reactor based on a solid oxide fuel cell solves thermal management and safety issues, as reported by ...

Through a groundbreaking Memorandum of Understanding announced in January, Texas Tech University, Abilene Christian University (ACU), Natura Resources and the Texas Produced Water Consortium (TxPWC) ...

Kairos Power has successfully installed the reactor vessel for its third Engineering Test Unit (ETU 3.0) at the company's site in west Oak Ridge. The ETU 3.0 and the Hermes Low-Power Demonstration ...

Advanced nuclear technology firm Oklo has broken ground on its inaugural 75-MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor at an Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site. The project—one of three awarded to the company ...

New reactors use novel materials and compact designs to make nuclear power safer and cheaper. Nuclear power has been a critical part of the electricity grid for decades, but old reactor designs—which ...

A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant that restarted for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is now being shut down again due to a glitch that occurred hours after ...

China’s EAST fusion reactor surpasses density limits, paving the way for advancements in sustainable fusion energy production.