New designs mean new strategies for managing spent fuel. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You ...
GE Vernova Inc. and Hitachi Ltd. agreed to explore opportunities to deploy small modular nuclear reactors in Southeast Asia. The companies will study possibilities for their joint venture to introduce ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Residents in Parsons voiced concerns Thursday about an underground nuclear reactor already under construction just outside town. The company behind the project, Deep Fission, ...
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) gave TerraPower the go-ahead this week to build a new nuclear reactor in the shadow of an aging coal power plant in Wyoming. TerraPower’s permit is the first to ...
The demand for reliable, 24/7 power for data centers is driving a historic level of interest in building new nuclear reactors. Current regulations and the high cost of qualifying new materials push ...
TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque displays a fuel assembly model for its planned small nuclear reactors in 2022. (Elaine Thompson/AP) Something shocking happened this week: Bureaucrats approved a project ...
Bill Gates’s nuclear energy startup TerraPower has just cleared a regulatory hurdle that the U.S. nuclear industry has been waiting years to see. On March 4, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted ...
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted approval to TerraPower to begin construction of a reactor in Wyoming. The project is the first new US commercial nuclear reactor in about a decade, ...
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A novel type of nuclear power plant in Wyoming backed by Bill Gates received a key federal permit Wednesday, making it the first new U.S. commercial reactor in nearly a decade to receive clearance to ...
TerraPower’s project in Wyoming, which uses novel technology, is the first new commercial reactor to receive federal approval in nearly a decade. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington A novel type ...
Nuclear power is again central to America’s energy conversation. Small modular reactors (SMRs), advanced reactor designs, and the potential restart of shuttered utility‑scale plants dominate headlines ...