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 ...

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), ...

At a time of increasing demand for sustainable electricity across the world, scientists are focusing to develop small nuclear reactors. To make innovations safer, researchers have turned to a new ...

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. In the past year, nuclear power has reentered the ...

While the energy crisis has a well-known public policy dimension, it also threatens the capabilities of the US military.

NASA first announced that it would put a reactor on the moon “within a decade” in 2021. By 2024, the agency said the target ...

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

Commercial fusion power plants may be cheaper and easier to build thanks to a breakthrough by TAE Technologies that allows reactors to generate their own containment fields without the need for ...

Nearly a month after Microsoft bet $16 billion on reviving the defunct Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power its energy-hungry data centers, Google and now Amazon are inking massive deals to ...

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

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 ...