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 ...

The demand for reliable, 24/7 power for data centers is driving a historic level of interest in building new nuclear reactors. Current regulations and the high cost of qualifying new materials push ...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah — The Pentagon and the Energy Department for the first time airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is U.S. potential to ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright, center, and Under Secretary of Defense Michael Duffey, left, listen as Isaiah Taylor, CEO of Valar Atomics, discusses a microreactor developed by Valar to generate ...

In a world first, the US Department of Defense (aka the Department of War) airlifted a complete 5-MW nuclear reactor using a C-17 Globemaster III transport from March Air Reserve Base, California to ...

Hanford demolished a 175‑foot reactor exhaust stack as a step toward cocooning. Explosives used to bring down stack at K West Reactor. Putting reactor in storage mode will cut monitoring costs.

Small, possibly portable, nuclear reactors that can’t melt down are moving toward reality in the United States, with what may be the first two coming online or beginning construction this year. The US ...

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A next-generation nuclear reactor left March Air Reserve Base, Calif., on Sunday in a first-of-its-kind airlift. The modules of the reactor were loaded aboard three C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, and ...

Less than three years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced the creation of the Texas Advanced Nuclear Reactor Working Group, Texas has become one of the main testing grounds in the United States for small ...

The Departments of Energy and Defense airlifted a small nuclear reactor for the first time as part of the Trump administration's push for a nuclear energy renaissance in the U.S. The agencies ...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah—The U.S. military airlifted a modern nuclear reactor on Sunday for the first time, part of President Trump’s push to deploy nuclear power across the United States. Three C-17 ...