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The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Clinch River site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has been waiting for a nuclear reactor since the ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania lawmakers are taking a closer look at small modular reactor technology, a next-generation form of nuclear power that experts say could help meet the commonwealth’s ...

The pitch from Silicon Valley sounds straightforward: build small, advanced nuclear reactors next to the data centers that ...

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 ...

Back in the 1950s, the U.S. started detonating nuclear bombs underground to limit the fallout, both radioactive and sociopolitical, unleashed by aboveground testing. Hundreds of feet of rock formed a ...

Both companies await their first dollar of sales from commercial operations, but how each approaches growth could shape ...

NuScale's small modular reactors could change the way nuclear energy is deployed, but the company has its work cut out for it.

Nuclear energy is becoming increasingly important as the world accelerates toward deep decarbonization, and small modular reactors (SMRs) are emerging as a pivotal solution. Their ability to deliver ...