Over 50 small reactors generating up to 500 megawatts of electricity have been built over the past half-century. Their median build time has been eight years. By contrast, large reactors have been ...
Small nuclear reactors are pitched as cheaper, safer, faster and easier to finance than their conventional counterparts. Hype around them is building fast, but some experts warn it ignores fundamental ...
Framingham-based energy infrastructure firm Ameresco has signed a memorandum of understanding with a nuclear energy company to explore the use of small nuclear reactors at federal and commercial ...
International regulators are increasingly cooperating to evaluate the safety of new small modular reactor ...
As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that ...
Small modular reactors (SMRs) are experiencing a significant comeback, driven by their scalability, siting flexibility, and ability to provide carbon-free baseload power, crucial for rising AI energy ...
As the nation responds to soaring demands for power and sharp spikes in electricity costs, a new generation of nuclear reactors could provide a solution to the need for clean, sustainable energy ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You can feel the buzz: nuclear is back. Or so we’re told. From Brussels to Washington, a new wave of enthusiasm for so-called ...
The UK government has announced that its first-ever small modular reactor (SMR) plant will be built at Wylfa in North Wales, in a landmark project expected to deliver clean power for the equivalent of ...
China plans to launch commercial operations at the world’s first small modular reactor (SMR) to generate nuclear energy as early as in the first half of 2026, according to the president of the China ...
The nuclear industry is pinning its hopes on small modular reactors to help meet climate targets, but as T V Padma reports, ...