The Department of Energy announced in May 2025 that it had selected eight companies to share more than $94 million in federal ...

The Department of Energy selected 10 small nuclear reactor developers Tuesday to compete for DOE safety design approvals, stepping up its push to quickly advance nuclear technology. The department ...

You might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities spanning hundreds of acres. Nuclear microreactors, by contrast, could sit on land the size of a football field and power a whole town.

PRAGUE — The Czech power company ČEZ signed a deal on Friday with Rolls-Royce SMR on preparatory work for the British company to build the first small modular nuclear reactor in the Czech Republic.

As if the U.S. grids weren’t stressed enough, AI data centers threaten to overwhelm them further with their massive energy demands. To address these challenges, researchers in Utah are entertaining ...

Passive cooling systems for nuclear power plants operate without pumps or electricity: They rely solely on physical effects ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation wants to put nuclear reactors on American cargo ships. Transportation Secretary Sean P.

Canadian engineering company AtkinsRealis secured a deal to be an exclusive provider on small modular reactor projects in North America, with services offered over the first five years of the contract ...

LG&E and KU are in talks with Maryland-based X-energy to bring prefabricated, 80 megawatt reactors to the Bluegrass State.

NuScale Power SMR and BWX Technologies BWXT are both important companies in the nuclear energy industry. NuScale Power focuses on building small modular reactors for clean energy projects. BWX ...