Small nuclear reactors are pitched as cheaper, safer, faster and easier to finance than their conventional counterparts. Hype around them is building fast, but some experts warn it ignores fundamental ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

A new portable reactor based on a solid oxide fuel cell solves thermal management and safety issues, as reported by ...

Over 50 small reactors generating up to 500 megawatts of electricity have been built over the past half-century. Their median build time has been eight years. By contrast, large reactors have been ...

Terrestrial Energy Inc. develops molten salt reactors with a $6.7 target and Project TETRA to meet data center demand. Read why IMSR stock is a hold.

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.

A lunar base powered by nuclear energy: this is NASA's new goal. The American space agency is currently working on installing a reactor on the Moon by 2030, a project that could reconfigure ...

Kairos Power has successfully installed the reactor vessel for its third Engineering Test Unit (ETU 3.0) at the company's site in west Oak Ridge. The ETU 3.0 and the Hermes Low-Power Demonstration ...

Through a groundbreaking Memorandum of Understanding announced in January, Texas Tech University, Abilene Christian University (ACU), Natura Resources and the Texas Produced Water Consortium (TxPWC) ...

For 25 years, MIT Technology Review has put together this package, which highlights the technologies that we think are going ...

China’s EAST fusion reactor surpasses density limits, paving the way for advancements in sustainable fusion energy production ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Factories could one day produce and ship small nuclear reactors across the country. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear ...