NuScale Power Corp., the only company with US approval for a small nuclear reactor, has now won regulatory support for a second design that may go into service by the end of the decade.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders as early as Friday to boost the nuclear energy industry by streamlining reactor approvals and reinforcing fuel supply chains, Reuters ...

In this photo provided by Tennessee Valley Authority, Scott Hunnewell, vice president of the utility’s New Nuclear Program, signs the construction permit application to build a small modular ...

At Purdue University, a nuclear reactor no bigger than a walk-in closet is doing what no other U.S. reactor has done: Becoming a test bed for the digital future of nuclear power. Buried ...

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT, Associated Press For the first time in the United States, a utility is asking federal regulators for a permit to build a small nuclear reactor. The nation’s largest public ...

Although some countries already have reactors with digital controls, PUR-1 is the only all-digital reactor that has been licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. All-digital means that the ...

Taiwan started to shut its final nuclear reactor on Saturday as a 40-year operating license expired, in a move that could threaten the island’s energy security and climate goals.

"The traditional nuclear reactors have like a 90%-93% capacity factor, meaning that they operate at their nameplate capacity that often," she explained. "Most other sources are below 50%.

The current fleet of nuclear reactors are based in huge imposing facilities generally located in isolated locations away from population centers. This need not be the case. In the near future ...

This is the problem that INL's Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) is dealing with. Since 2020, the technical team under Bill Phillips has been trying to come up with the right uranium ...

Kairos Power partnered with Materion Corp. in Elmore, Ohio, to commission the construction and operation of the Molten Salt Purification Plant (MSPP). In 2022 it produced unenriched FLiBe for the ...

Those were some of Kairos Power ’s achievements in the past year or so, starting in December 2023 when the first construction permit was granted to the company based in Alameda, California. An update ...