New guidance for private industry plus a new test bed facility are set to speed widespread nuclear energy development in microreactors.

As of now, “nuclear energy” in practical contexts refers to fission, or splitting heavy particles to generate massive loads of energy. The goal is to eventually transition to fusion, which combines ...

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.

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westinghouse Electric Company and CORE POWER today announced the formalization of a cooperative agreement for the design and development of a floating nuclear ...

The Army on Tuesday named nine U.S. installations that could receive nuclear microreactors in the coming years as the service looks to the technology for increased and more resilient power production ...

WASHINGTON — The Army will place commercial nuclear microreactors on some of its bases in the coming years under a private-public partnership it has dubbed the Janus Program, Army Secretary Dan ...

Microreactor developers are forging commercial pathways with offtakers as an AI boom hikes demand for swift deployment near to end-users. March 27 - Soaring power demand from U.S. data centers has ...

The new nuclear age of small modular reactors may not have materialized yet, but that's not stopping the US Department of Energy from getting to work on even smaller, more modular reactors with a ...

Unfinished nuclear reactor core in a modern nuclear power plant under construction. getty The Trump administration has taken another step to convince businesses to invest in nuclear power by starting ...