Small nuclear reactors are pitched as cheaper, safer, faster and easier to finance than their conventional counterparts. Hype around them is building fast, but some experts warn it ignores fundamental ...

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

A new portable reactor based on a solid oxide fuel cell solves thermal management and safety issues, as reported by ...

Terrestrial Energy Inc. develops molten salt reactors with a $6.7 target and Project TETRA to meet data center demand. Read why IMSR stock is a hold.

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 ...

At a time of increasing demand for sustainable electricity across the world, scientists are focusing to develop small nuclear reactors. To make innovations safer, researchers have turned to a new ...

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, could be home to a molten salt reactor once again if Google-backed Kairos Power has its way.… The small modular reactor startup, along with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), ...

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. In the past year, nuclear power has reentered the ...

Commercial fusion power plants may be cheaper and easier to build thanks to a breakthrough by TAE Technologies that allows reactors to generate their own containment fields without the need for ...

Nearly a month after Microsoft bet $16 billion on reviving the defunct Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power its energy-hungry data centers, Google and now Amazon are inking massive deals to ...

The restart of the world’s largest nuclear power plant was suspended only hours after it resumed for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster ...

The Northern European country of Sweden is now making a move towards developing a test nuclear reactor, with Blykalla, a renowned advanced SMR manufacturer, looking to transform the industry with the ...