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 ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

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 ...

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

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), ...

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.

While the energy crisis has a well-known public policy dimension, it also threatens the capabilities of the US military if and when a crisis should break out in East Asia. Artificial intelligence has ...

For 25 years, MIT Technology Review has put together this package, which highlights the technologies that we think are going ...

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 ...

Abstract: I believe nuclear energy is poised for a vital resurgence. Amid rising global temperatures, surging data center demand, and bipartisan support for innovation, now is the time to double down ...

In the shadow of a service outage that affected millions of users, outside of Richland, Washington, internet commerce giant Amazon is building the first of a series of modular nuclear power stations ...

A North Carolina-headquartered developer of small modular nuclear power plants announced it has an agreement with the U.S.