Since initiating the program’s design phase two years ago, the DARPA-NASA management team has encountered the challenges inherent in sending a nuclear reactor into space for the first time in ...

This ambitious goal will likely be manifested through advanced technologies like small modular reactors (SMRs) and microreactors. These configurations promise to offer greater flexibility and ...

To meet that demand, Eagle Mountain is considering allowing small nuclear reactors and other alternate power sources, like natural gas power plants and battery storage systems, to be built on some ...

TerraPower is now also supported by the US Department of Energy, which gave the company an $80 million grant in October 2020 as part of its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Project program.

We’re seeing efforts to boost their power output, extend the lifetime of old reactors, and even reopen facilities that have shut down. That’s good news for climate action, because nuclear ...

Sodium-cooled fast reactors using metallic-alloy fuel are attracting attention because they are inherently safe and produce more fuel than they use.

TerraPower claims that its Natrium technology is one of the fastest and lowest-cost paths to advanced, zero-carbon energy.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There’s no mystery as to why enthusiasm is building for small modular reactors, or SMRs. After all, large ...

MILAN, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Newcleo signed on Wednesday two deals with Slovakia's nuclear companies Jadrová vyraďovacia spoločnosť (JAVYS) and VUJE to build up to four reactors for a cost of 3.2 ...

The owner of New York’s nuclear power plants is applying for federal funding to evaluate building one or more small modular reactors at its Nine Mile Point site in Oswego, Gov. Kathy Hochul said ...

France is "far from ready" to build six nuclear reactors, the state's top audit body said on Tuesday, underlining the challenges the country faces in rejuvenating its ageing fleet of nuclear power ...

The VVER-1,000 MWe reactor vessel for the sixth unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), being built to a Russian design, is being transported to the construction site in Tirunelveli ...