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

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 ...

The United States is moving from concept art to hardware in its push for a permanent foothold on the Moon, and nuclear power ...

TerraPower, a Bill Gates-backed nuclear company, announced a deal with Meta to build up to eight small modular reactors in ...

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.

Traditional techniques of converting fossil fuels for heat and power generation and chemical production increase the carbon ...

While the energy crisis has a well-known public policy dimension, it also threatens the capabilities of the US military.

Small modular reactor startups are betting that mass manufacturing will help them bring costs down. But are they ...

Neutron beam research and reactor technology constitute a vibrant field at the forefront of materials analysis, non‐destructive imaging and advanced reactor design. The utilisation of neutrons for ...

A North Carolina-headquartered developer of small modular nuclear power plants announced it has an agreement with the U.S.

NASA first announced that it would put a reactor on the moon “within a decade” in 2021. By 2024, the agency said the target ...

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