The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission accepted an application for a construction permit from the Tennessee Valley Authority to ...

ABILENE— Bolstered by $3.2 million from a former Midland oilman, this West Texas city of 130,000 people is helping the Lone ...

When we think about capacity and electricity and power, the development that's going on out there, we need to be thinking ...

Last Energy aims to have its first fully functional, nuclear-fueled reactor operational by 2026 or 2027. Other manufacturers are working on similar timelines, driven by the urgency of addressing ...

Whether it doubles down on large or small scale reactors, by 2040 the United States will have "simplified, standardized, replicated nuclear power plants to be able to build them on-time, on-budget ...

These include Russia’s own BOR-60 research reactor and the operational BN-600 and BN-800 power reactors at the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant. Fast neutron reactors are a type of nuclear reactor ...

WOODS: Small nuclear modular reactors aim to address both those problems. By building small and modular, they'll hopefully be simplified.

As major tech firms, including Google and Amazon, turn to advanced nuclear technologies known as small modular reactors (SMRs) in hopes of powering their AI ambitions, skeptics are raising ...

There have been some intriguing stories lately about a different kind of reactor – one cooled by molten salt instead of the more typical water-cooled designs comprising the great majority of the world ...

Two full-size reactors in Georgia, the first new nuclear plants to be constructed in decades, took 15 years to build, seven years behind schedule, and cost twice their $14 billion budget. SMRs are ...

The NRC has overseen commercial nuclear reactors for 50 years since its creation in 1975. Amid concerns over overregulation, the U.S. has only two operational commercial reactors whose ...

Big Tech's big bet on nuclear power 07:30. President Trump on Friday signed several executive orders to help clear the way for more nuclear power development and, in the words of one of his top ...