Reactor Restarts Add New Layer to Nuclear Renaissance

The U.S. nuclear sector is moving beyond discussions about preserving existing reactor capacity. Holtec International ...
Purdue University

At the nation’s only all-digital nuclear reactor, engineers conduct the first experiments of their kind in the U.S.

Purdue University Reactor Number One has specific features that no other reactor in the U.S. has. Purdue’s reactor is ...
MIT Technology Review

Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US

This year the American holiday also marked a big symbolic deadline for US nuclear power. Last year the Trump administration ...
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A startup fired up the first reactor built to power AI data centers on July 4

Four advanced nuclear reactors reached a self-sustaining chain reaction for the first time in the weeks before July 4, 2026, ...
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Metals' atomic arrangement can create 'corrosion highways' in nuclear reactors

Nuclear reactors are traditionally powered with dense fuel rods that can produce about 1 gigawatt of carbon-free electricity, ...
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Small Modular Reactors Finally Work

Small modular reactors are supposed to become a new leg on the green energy stool. However, none have been deployed, and regulatory approval is still an open issue. That is about to change. Google is ...

Canada cut a hole in the roof of a live nuclear reactor, pulled out eight 100-ton steam generators, and finished seven months ahead of schedule

Canada finished a major Bruce Power reactor overhaul seven months early after replacing eight giant steam generators.

A US startup wants to drop a full nuclear reactor a mile down a 30-inch hole, with no concrete dome required

Deep Fission plans to place nuclear reactors a mile underground. Can this deep-well design unlock a new era of clean power?

From interplanetary spaceships to reactors on the Moon, the future of space travel is quietly turning nuclear, and engineers explain why

NASA's SR-1 Freedom mission targets a 2028 launch to Mars. See how this nuclear-powered spacecraft could unlock deep space ...