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.

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. I’m ...

As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that ...

Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are often hailed as the future of nuclear power—compact, scalable, and potentially capable of delivering clean energy anywhere it’s needed. From powering remote mining ...

Sometimes an idea is so elegant that it really deserves to work. One such is a proposal put forward by the boss of Deep Fission, an aspiring nuclear-power firm in Berkeley, California. Elizabeth ...

All the different types of small modular reactors generate heat the same way: by splitting heavy atoms and capturing the heat ...

Aditi Verma receives research funding from the U.S. Department of Energy. She is a board member for the Good Energy Collective and serves on various expert working groups of the OECD Nuclear Energy ...

Associate Professor of Construction Management; Director of Research, Applied Research Center, Florida International University As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build ...