The site will also host the proposed single 35-MWth Hermes 1 test reactor, a non-nuclear engineering test unit, and potentially a Kairos Power fuel fabrication facility. Construction on Hermes 1 ...

France on Saturday connected its most powerful nuclear power reactor to the national electricity grid in what leaders hailed as a landmark moment despite years of delays and technical setbacks.

Peter Dutton once claimed a small modular nuclear reactor would produce only a Coke can’s worth of waste.Credit: Marija Ercegovac But Australia has never had to confront the challenge of storing ...

The new agreement would see Oklo building enough small modular reactors (SMR) by 2044 to generate 12 gigawatts of electricity for Switch’s data centers, which today serve a wide range of ...

Building, owning and operating a power plant to plug fusion power into the grid is its “next act,” Mumgaard said. The startup looked at more than 100 locations around the world for the power ...

The Oklo reactor’s two-billion-year-old uranium ore. Ludovic Ferriere/Vienna Natural History Museum Long before humans conceptualized nuclear energy, nature had already engineered its own reactor.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's announcement on nuclear energy last week contained a welcome development. For the first time since about 1989, the Coalition has acknowledged that only governments ...

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's announcement on nuclear energy last week contained a welcome development. For the first time since about 1989, the Coalition has acknowledged that only governments can ...

To deal with this unsolved challenge, there is a potential for small modular reactors (SMRs) to provide system-bearing ancillary services, such as uncontrolled physical inertia and short circuit ...

Italy’s national space agency (ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) has initiated its Selene project, which aims to develop small nuclear fission reactors to power settlements on the Moon. In 2023, the ...