America’s nuclear renaissance is about transforming nuclear power from slow, one-off construction projects into scalable, factory-built reactors.

Nuclear energy in the West took another step forward as the first privately developed, non-light-water reactor to go critical in the United States in more than 40 years reached a major milestone when ...

They’re not exactly IFRs but France built and operated the Phenix and Superphenix fast breeder reactor with similar goals as the IFR. Then there are the Monju sodium cooled fast breeder reactor in ...

Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use ...

WASHINGTON — Antares Nuclear completed a zero-power criticality test for its Mark-0 demonstrator reactor at Idaho National Laboratory on June 4, 2026. This milestone advances the deployment of ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Following an afternoon briefing in the Oval Office where Energy Secretary Chris Wright promised a major announcement before the "sun goes down," the Department of Energy ...

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Existing generative AI models are built on batch processing: You give the system instructions; it runs computations; then spits back the results. Now comes a Silicon Valley startup that says it can ...

The first Minecraft 26.2 pre-release is here for Java Edition, but there's some bad news if you've been taking advantage of the sandbox game's new peer-to-peer multiplayer, which was implemented in a ...

TerraPower, the Bellevue, Washington-based nuclear company now under full construction at its first commercial sodium-cooled reactor site in Kemmerer, Wyoming, completed a 7-billion-won ($4.67 million ...

The results are good news for the thorium-HALEU fuel cycle, set to grow in relevance as advanced reactors grow smaller and abundant. Reading time 2 minutes Last year, a private-public collaboration ...

Advanced nuclear reactor company X-energy began trading Friday as the AI boom and electrification broadly spark a flurry of interest in the nuclear industry. The stock opened at $30.11, after upsizing ...