Nuclear power is leveling up, with plans for an entire floating power plant fueled by something you’d least expect to find in a reactor—table salt. By the mid-2030s, a fleet of smaller ...

A US nuclear reactor has switched from Regular to Premium fuel with Southern Nuclear inserting four Lead Test Assemblies (LTAs) into the Vogtle Unit 2 reactor in Waynesboro, Georgia that contains ...

A startup in Israel is developing a nuclear reactor no bigger than a desktop computer. Having proved that the breakthrough technology works, Metatron N.R.G. now aims to build a fully functioning ...

Molten salt nuclear reactors (MSR) also have unique passive methods of preventing nuclear disasters. Some plants are equipped with what's known as a "freeze plug" in the reactor chamber.

Dow Chemical aims to build four mini-nuclear reactors at its Seadrift site in Texas to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Kairos’ reactor design differs from conventional nuclear reactors for two key reasons ... computing needs of artificial intelligence and graphics processing units like Nvidia’s.

Smaller, more flexible nuclear reactors Smaller reactors are, in theory, faster to build and easier to site than conventional reactors. They could be factory-built from standard parts and are ...

Advanced reactors, called small modular reactors and microreactors, produce a fraction of the energy produced by the conventional nuclear reactors built around the world for the last 50 years.