Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TerraPower, a Bill Gates–backed nuclear power start-up, received the federal green light to start building a power plant in ...

As U.S. energy demand increases, advanced nuclear energy has emerged as an important option for 24-7 reliable electricity and heat generation. Nuclear engineers in national laboratories and private ...

The United States has taken a step toward a 21st-century renaissance in civilian nuclear power as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given the go-ahead for TerraPower's Natrium Gen IV reactor ...

Bill Gates-backed nuclear startup TerraPower has been given the long-awaited green light to begin building nuclear components of its next-generation power plant. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a ...

After years in the wilderness, it’s a good time to be a nuclear startup. “For the first half a decade that I was telling people I was doing nuclear, I had to convince them, ‘Hey, here’s why nuclear is ...

Deep Fission, a California-based nuclear startup, has officially moved from concept to construction. The ...

Scientists in the US have developed a new glowing surrogate nuclear reactor that replaces dangerous neutron-driven reactions with thousands of LEDs in order to simulate the complex physics of a ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) aims to jumpstart the development and deployment of new advanced reactors this year by bypassing onerous and largely useless environmental assessments. In a May ...

TerraPower, a Bill Gates–backed nuclear power start-up, received the federal green light to start building a power plant in Wyoming. The approval paves the way for the first new commercial nuclear ...