Stellarator fusion reactor coil design took supercomputer clusters of 8,500 separate optimization runs to produce a handful ...

California-based Deep Fission said the DOE signed off on the Nuclear Safety Design Agreement (NSDA) for its Gravity Nuclear ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was selected as the core company in charge of the conceptual design of a demonstration fast reactor which the Japanese government aims to place into operation in the 2040s.

The NSDA approval establishes the safety framework that will guide the reactor's continued development. With this milestone ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission certified a design for an advanced small modular reactor (SMR) for the first time. NuScale Power's design has become the seventh reactor design cleared for use ...

Oklo’s Groves Isotope Test Reactor in Lockhart, Texas, has become the fifth reactor to achieve criticality under the U.S.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has launched the SRZ-1200 advanced pressurised water reactor design. Developed in collaboration with four Japanese utilities, the 1200 MWe reactor is designed to meet the ...

German startup Proxima Fusion — whose team includes engineers from MIT, Google, SpaceX, and McLaren — has unveiled a fusion energy reactor design it believes offers the quickest route to commercially ...

In 1969, an experimental nuclear reactor located near Hallam, Nebraska, was dismantled, with its radioactive materials ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave an advanced reactor design its stamp of approval, but there is still a long road ahead before next-generation nuclear technologies get off the ground. The ...

The U.S. has just given the green light to its first-ever small modular nuclear design, a promising step forward for a power source that remains controversial among some climate advocates but is ...