The Energy Department announced Wednesday it is providing $30 million to U.S. companies seeking a breakthrough in developing smaller nuclear reactors.
The Energy Department announced Wednesday it is providing $30 million to U.S. companies seeking a breakthrough in developing smaller nuclear reactors.
President-elect Joe Biden is poised to embrace nuclear power in pursuit of aggressive reductions to carbon emissions and will look to build upon the Trump administration’s support for new ...
A competitive and innovative advanced nuclear industry, independent of both the national security state and significant public subsidies, must allow for companies and technologies to fail ...
Project Pele is spearheaded by the Department of Defense's cutting-edge Strategic Capabilities Office, and could lead to breakthroughs for the future of advanced nuclear.
News OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 11, 2020 — Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are refining their design of a 3D-printed nuclear reactor core, scaling up the ...
Western Europe The U.K. is facing a major challenge to replace it aging fleet of first generation nuclear power plants many of which are scheduled for shutdown in 2023. In November 2019 ...
Expanding U.S. commercial nuclear power abroad could become the Trump administration’s strongest lever against Chinese hegemony and Russian expansion in the global market.
Driven in part by concerns over climate change, nuclear energy is receiving renewed attention. In order for the United States to meet growing international demand for nuclear ...
As researchers and automakers make strides in improving electric vehicle batteries, a future with widespread electric semitrucks seems increasingly possible.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded $3.4 million to a research team led by North Carolina State University to perform preliminary development of a Nearly Autonomous ...
The Department of Defense has two parallel nuclear reactor programs underway, one for domestic use, one for use abroad.
U-Battery SMR Moves to Next Stage of Canadian Lab Assessment (WNN) The Urenco-led U-Battery consortium has completed the first stage of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ (CNL) invitation to ...
How moving beyond the scientism of the nuclear debate could deliver a long-awaited climate breakthrough — and generate fresh ideas for a more productive politics.
In Part 1 of this series, published in the March 2020 issue, POWER explored how existing reactors may leverage advances in nuclear fuel to boost power generation safety and economics. This ...
TerraPower and Centrus Propose HALEU Facility CNL and Terrestrial Energy to Collaborate on IMSR Power Plant DOE Heads North to Alaska to Work on Micro Reactors UAE May Build Four More ...
U.S. Department of Energy Awards $15.2 Million for Advanced Nuclear Technology
MathJax.Hub.Config({ tex2jax: {inlineMath: [['$','$'], ['\\(','\\)']]} }); The costs of first-of-a-kind small modular nuclear power reactors ...