A nuclear engineer reviews an unusual reactor design and explains the science behind whether the concept could work. The reaction breaks down the engineering, safety considerations, and realism of the ...

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has teamed up with artificial intelligence (AI) computing giant NVIDIA to advance “PROMETHEUS ...

Ion beams can now qualify nuclear reactor materials up to 1,000 times faster than ...

In the proverbial shadow of the Naughton Power Plant, a station in Kemmerer, Wyoming, that will stop burning coal at the end of this year, TerraPower is constructing what it calls “the only advanced, ...

We talk to José Reyes about the company’s design and their vision for what small-scale nuclear power could look like. Note: The following transcript was transcribed digitally and validated for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Energy Northwest has picked a team to plan, design and build the first four of 12 X-energy small modular advanced nuclear reactors ...

Advanced nuclear power and small, modular reactors represent a new chapter in U.S. nuclear energy that remains largely in the design and testing phases. The next-generation designs are meant to ...

Belgian engineering firm Tractebel announced it has signed a new mutual agreement with NRG-Pallas to extend their long-standing collaboration on the construction of the Pallas research reactor in ...