The five-year-old startup is designing its portable microreactor to meet increasing electricity demand and help mitigate stresses on the grid. Radiant Industries, a startup pushing to mass produce ...

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. I’m ...

Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have developed a compact reactivity control system for the MARVEL sodium-potassium-cooled microreactor.

Researchers from University of South China, Tsinghua University and Technical University of Munich have developed a whole system uncertainty model and an Intelligent optimized power control system of ...

Small modular reactor designer Oklo has signed a binding contract with one of the world’s leading energy tech companies Siemens Energy for the delivery of a power conversion system to support its ...

Section 1. Background. The United States faces a critical national security imperative to ensure a resilient, secure, and reliable energy supply for critical defense facilities designated under ...

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 ...