In October, the Arkansas state legislature’s Joint Energy Committee hired a Maryland firm to study the feasibility of adopting small modular ...
A new program at the Department of Energy is pushing the development of nearly a dozen new reactor designs at breakneck speed ...
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.
When President Donald Trump convened nuclear industry executives at the White House in May, it marked the public rollout of a major shift in US nuclear ...
X-energy Reactor Co., a startup developing miniature nuclear reactors, today announced that it has raised $700 million in funding. Jane Street led the oversubscribed Series D investment with ...
The UK's first small nuclear power stations will be built on the Isle of Anglesey in north Wales. Back in June, the government promised £2.5bn for small modular reactors (SMRs). It is hoped SMRs will ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Aditi Verma, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) You might imagine nuclear power ...