TerraPower becomes first next-gen nuclear company to get U.S. green light for building reactors

TerraPower recently signed a deal with Meta to build up to eight advanced reactors in the U.S.
Opinion

The government’s freeze on nuclear energy is thawing

TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque displays a fuel assembly model for its planned small nuclear reactors in 2022. (Elaine Thompson/AP) Something shocking happened this week: Bureaucrats approved a project ...

NuScale Power Bets on Small Modular Reactors as AI Drives a New Wave of Electricity Demand

ONCE Capital increased its stake in NuScale Power during the fourth quarter as AI-driven data centers boost demand for ...

As proposals for nuclear stations proliferate across Canada, ‘fleet-based’ reactor deployment remains elusive

Canada isn’t populous or wealthy enough to purchase a smorgasbord of different nuclear reactors. Yet after years of lukewarm ...

Small modular reactors, big dreams: Ontario’s nuclear pitch

The Narwhal highlights Ontario's plan to build small modular reactors (SMRs) at Darlington, aiming for clean energy amidst ...

Profiling Reactor Technology: Westinghouse And Oklo

The nuclear renaissance makes for an exciting investing opportunity. Two oft-discussed reactor developers are Westinghouse ...
Hackaday

Inside SKALA: How Chornobyl’s Reactor Was Actually Controlled

Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor.
GCN

Utah outlines strategy to install up to ten Holtec small modular reactors statewide

Utah plans to make some bold moves in the nuclear energy sector. This could make Utah the leading region in the United States for small nuclear reactors. The collaboration between the Utah-based ...

‘Selling a dream’: the French nuclear start-up that ran aground

Naarea’s unravelling provides cautionary tale for dozens of small reactor developers racing to bring designs to fruition ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Tiny nuclear reactor just arrived in Utah and it could rewrite the grid

A next-generation nuclear micro-reactor has completed its journey from Southern California to northern Utah, marking the first physical step in a federal push to prove that small, transportable ...
The National Interest

Who Authorizes New Nuclear Reactors in the United States?

The answer is more complicated than it used to be, as multiple federal agencies are responsible for new nuclear reactors. Each story invokes an alphabet soup of acronyms — DOE, NRC, DoD, LPO, PTC, PPA ...