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Utah will have a new nuclear reactor running by 2026, Gov. Cox and startup Valar Atomics announce By the time the Winter Olympics return to Utah in 2034, the goal is to “have operational nuclear ...
NuScale Power Corp., the only company with US approval for a small nuclear reactor, has now won regulatory support for a second design that may go into service by the end of the decade.
A nuclear reactor that seems on a fast track for development in Utah, by a company known as Valar Atomics, may yield important research information but it won't produce any energy.
President Donald Trump signed four executive orders to overhaul the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and hasten the process and deployment of new nuclear power reactors in the United States.
For the first time in the United States, a utility is asking federal regulators for a permit to build a small nuclear reactor.
At Purdue University, a nuclear reactor no bigger than a walk-in closet is doing what no other U.S. reactor has done: Becoming a test bed for the digital future of nuclear power.
The Tennessee Valley Authority submitted a construction permit application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a small, modular nuclear reactor.
At Indiana’s only nuclear reactor, engineers conduct the first experiments of their kind in the U.S. The experiments could accelerate the deployment of advanced reactors by testing new capabilities ...
Taiwan started to shut its final nuclear reactor on Saturday as a 40-year operating license expired, in a move that could threaten the island’s energy security and climate goals.
Nuclear power would be back on the table in Massachusetts under Gov. Healey's new energy legislation.