COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M has big plans for small reactors as it expands the nation’s largest nuclear engineering program and partners with six startups to develop new power plant technologies. The ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The plasma density barrier is a mathematical limit to the density of plasma that can exist in a tokamak before destabilizing. A new study led by a ...

From molten salt to TRISO fuel, here’s how technological advancements could upend an old power technology. Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive ...

OTA agreement provides for construction and operation of Project TETRA, Terrestrial Energy’s pilot reactor using Integral Molten Salt Reactor technology Terrestrial Energy now positioned to move ...

A North Carolina-headquartered developer of small modular nuclear power plants announced it has an agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) for an initiative to build and operate a molten salt ...

Companies like Kairos Power are building new types of reactors with the encouragement of the Trump administration, but their success is far from assured. By Ivan Penn Reporting from Oak Ridge, Tenn.; ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. The final deployment of the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) came to an end ...

Adani Group, the conglomerate of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, is in talks with the state government of India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state on a public-private partnership to build small modular ...

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The five initial selections for end user experiments at Idaho National Laboratory's Microreactor Application Research Validation and Evaluation (MARVEL) reactor include projects related to data ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has chosen a Holtec project in western Michigan as one of two nationally to receive hundreds of millions of federal dollars to develop the first small modular nuclear ...

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 ...