The companies’ Fourth of July plans include celebrating new reactor designs coming online. But there’s still a long way to go ...

HTGR does brrrr. PC's CPU running the demo goes brrrr-er.

A program initiated by the Trump administration has allowed small companies to rush their testing of several new nuclear ...

Nuclear tech startup Ampera revealed a small modular reactor manufactured using 3D printing techniques. The company says that ...

The federal government wants to help utilities buy large components for up to 10 large nuclear reactors. It’s unclear which, ...

Almost four decades after the fall of communism in Slovakia, a Soviet-designed reactor is finally about to produce power.

Unity, a microreactor from Houston-based Deployable Energy, is the latest of the three to reach criticality as part of a ...

Using lead as a coolant could save us from a nuclear catastrophe.

An ambitious program to start up new nuclear reactors is bearing fruit. But some are worried about safety shortcuts. NPR’s Geoff Brumfiel reports. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

A novel type of nuclear power plant in Wyoming backed by Bill Gates received a key federal permit Wednesday, making it the first new U.S. commercial reactor in nearly a decade to receive clearance to ...