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Advanced nuclear reactor company X-energy began trading Friday as the AI boom and electrification broadly spark a flurry of interest in the nuclear industry. The stock opened at $30.11, after upsizing ...

The Pentagon said Wednesday it selected Antares Nuclear Inc. of Torrance, Calif., to build a prototype nuclear microreactor on the base as part of its Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations program.

As the grid strains under the weight of electrification and AI data centers, tech companies and utilities have been evaluating whether nuclear power can help with the burden. After the two most recent ...

The White House has announced that NASA will work with the Departments of Defense and Energy to put nuclear reactors in orbit and on the surface of the moon. Having demonstrated that it has the ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— Launch nuclear reactors to orbit as soon as 2028 and to the Moon as soon as 2030—that’s the White House’s new order to the Pentagon and NASA. The six-page policy memo released ...

Additional nuclear power is coming to North Alabama and the result could be lower utility prices. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi last week announced Japan’s ...

Aalo Atomics has held a ceremony to unveil its completed Critical Test Reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory. The company said it expects the reactor to achieve criticality "well before" the 4 July ...

New designs mean new strategies for managing spent fuel. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You ...

TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque displays a fuel assembly model for its planned small nuclear reactors in 2022. (Elaine Thompson/AP) Something shocking happened this week: Bureaucrats approved a project ...

Bill Gates’s nuclear energy startup TerraPower has just cleared a regulatory hurdle that the U.S. nuclear industry has been waiting years to see. On March 4, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted approval to TerraPower to begin construction of a reactor in Wyoming. The project is the first ...