While companies in the US chase smaller footprints, there are a lot of new large reactors going up in China. It’s a tale of two nuclear industries. In China, large reactors are coming together at a ...

Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use ...

Nuclear energy in the West took another step forward as the first privately developed, non-light-water reactor to go critical in the United States in more than 40 years reached a major milestone when ...

The owner of the former Oyster Creek nuclear plant is considering building four small modular reactors on the site. These new reactors would double the power output of the original plant and are seen ...

TOKYO – Japan’s industry ministry on June 5 proposed replacing two to five ageing nuclear reactors by the 2040s, and a total of 11 to 14 by the 2050s, setting such a numerical target for the first ...

Sources say the Japanese government will seek to rebuild two to five aging nuclear reactors by the 2040s to help ensure a stable supply of energy. The sources say this is part of the government's aim ...

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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Antares today announced that its Mark-0 microreactor achieved initial criticality at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) under U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) ...

An independent developer of utility-scale nuclear power projects said it has an agreement with GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear ...

WASHINGTON — Antares Nuclear completed a zero-power criticality test for its Mark-0 demonstrator reactor at Idaho National Laboratory on June 4, 2026. This milestone advances the deployment of ...

Extreme temperatures soared across Europe on Wednesday as several countries issued heat alerts, with a Swiss power company shutting down one of its reactor units, France partially closing the Eiffel ...

Antares Nuclear Inc.’s Mark-0—a sodium heat-pipe-cooled microreactor fueled by high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) tri-structural isotropic (TRISO) fuel compacts—has achieved zero-power ...