The company's pint-sized nuclear reactor has numerous safety benefits over larger reactors, and the small size makes it possible to build them at a centralized facility before shipping them to their ...

Oklo, a nuclear start-up, aims to design, build, and operate small modular reactors, projecting their first plant by late 2027. Despite skepticism about SMR startups, Oklo's leadership and regulatory ...

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has certified the design for the country’s first-ever small modular nuclear reactor. In the Federal Register on Thursday, the NRC established a rule allowing ...

Setting a new milestone in nuclear research, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have successfully fired up 3D-printed stainless steel capsules inside one of the ...

As the demand for energy is growing, scientists are trying to tap the maximum potential of nuclear power. It is in this ...

To fuel the insatiable energy appetite of artificial intelligence, tech companies are going big on small nuclear reactors. Last week, both Google and Amazon announced agreements with companies that ...

Burnable absorbers are key components in modern nuclear reactor design, serving to mitigate the excess reactivity inherent in fresh reactor cores while simultaneously enhancing operational safety and ...

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have reignited efforts to develop a small nuclear reactor for deployment on the ...

A review of the feasibility studies submitted by EDF, Westinghouse and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power for two new reactors in the Netherlands suggests that all three designs would meet necessary safety ...

Tests carried out on high burnup fast reactor fuel as part of a collaboration between the USA and Japan are the first of their kind carried out in more than 20 years, and will provide crucial new data ...