From Arctic research stations to isolated mine sites, the hardest places on the planet to power have long depended on diesel drums and fragile supply chains. A new generation of portable nuclear ...
An artist's render of the Prodigy TNPP microreactor.Prodigy Clean Energy Canadian firm Prodigy Clean Energy has announced the ...
With $800 million in federal aid, developers of light-water small modular reactors are racing to build supply chains, ...
During Gov. Kathy Hochul’s State of the State address earlier this month, she proposed building five gigawatts worth of new ...
National Geographic Explorer Paolo Verzone provides a rare peek inside a stellarator, an experiment that aims to give the world near-limitless clean energy. When in operation, this space inside the ...
New reactors use novel materials and compact designs to make nuclear power safer and cheaper. Nuclear power has been a critical part of the electricity grid for decades, but old reactor designs—which ...
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 ...
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The U.S. Army is advancing portable nuclear microreactors under the Janus Program. Microreactors are smaller and faster to deploy than traditional reactors or SMRs. The initiative aligns with a ...
Scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) program rang in the new year with a stunning accomplishment: empirical evidence that they used the device to achieve nuclear ...
If you have a redundant nuclear aircraft carrier lying around, you can give HGP Intelligent Energy a call. The Texas-based developer wants to repurpose the nuclear reactors used to power carriers to ...
WASHINGTON (TNND) — The U.S. Army is moving closer to deploying a new class of nuclear technology that could reshape how the United States produces reliable, low-carbon power — nuclear microreactors ...