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 ...

International regulators are increasingly cooperating to evaluate the safety of new small modular reactor ...

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 ...

As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that ...

The two-year-old startup is eyeing an initial reactor demonstration for the summer, one year ahead of its plan to roll out a prototype. Antares, a nuclear power startup that designs small modular ...

SaskPower and the Saskatchewan government are committed to researching ways to create a large nuclear reactor in the province. This is alongside the small modular project proposed for Estevan.

Still, familiar as that scenario is, the amount of power that future AI is projected to need is simply staggering. The ...

Rosatom highlights innovative floating nuclear power plants and SMR technology, emphasizing international cooperation at India Energy Week.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Leonel Lagos, Florida International University (THE CONVERSATION) As U.S. electricity ...