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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Energy Northwest has picked a team to plan, design and build the first four of 12 X-energy small modular advanced nuclear reactors ...

President Donald Trump last year called for reactors on military installations to strengthen national security.

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) - The Iowa Nuclear Energy Task Force says building a new type of nuclear reactor in Iowa would cost about $4 billion and take five years to build. Small modular nuclear ...

The demand for reliable, 24/7 power for data centers is driving a historic level of interest in building new nuclear reactors. Current regulations and the high cost of qualifying new materials push ...

Chinese scientists successfully converted thorium-232 into uranium-233 within an experimental thorium molten salt reactor, validating the technical feasibility of the thorium fuel cycle. This ...

In the decade after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, many countries throttled or paused their nuclear projects. As a result, many ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Leonel Lagos, Florida International University (THE CONVERSATION) As U.S. electricity ...