Additional nuclear power is coming to North Alabama and the result could be lower utility prices. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi last week announced Japan’s ...

Mary Anne Zivnuska, left, is an alumna of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, and Asheesh Agarwal is an alumnus of the first Trump administration. Courtesy photos America’s most pressing ambitions — ...

BWX Technologies is a leading producer of naval nuclear power systems in the U.S. Its BANR is a promising SMR design. Most SMR companies are start-ups reliant on investor dollars, but BWX is not.

March 20 (Reuters) - X-Energy has filed for an initial public offering in the United States, it said on Friday, as the reactor developer aims to tap growing ‌investor enthusiasm for nuclear power. The ...

Bill Gates’s nuclear energy startup TerraPower has just cleared a regulatory hurdle that the U.S. nuclear industry has been waiting years to see. On March 4, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted ...

TerraPower’s project in Wyoming, which uses novel technology, is the first new commercial reactor to receive federal approval in nearly a decade. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington A novel type ...

The 175-foot-tall concrete exhaust stack at the Hanford nuclear site’s defunct K West Reactor came crashing down Friday afternoon. A “boom” sounded as carefully placed explosives around the base of ...

A Valar Atomics microreactor is seen on a C-17 aircraft, without nuclear fuel, at March Air Reserve Base, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. The reactor was transported from March Air Reserve Base to Hill ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Pentagon airlifted a 5-megawatt nuclear microreactor from Riverside County’s March Air Reserve Base to Utah ...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah — The Pentagon and the Energy Department for the first time airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is U.S. potential to ...

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A next-generation nuclear reactor left March Air Reserve Base, Calif., on Sunday in a first-of-its-kind airlift. The modules of the reactor were loaded aboard three C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, and ...