Kairos Power is the first nuclear startup to begin construction on a modular reactor, but its design relies on a rare fuel source. Second in an occasional series on companies leading the way on small ...

The race is on to build a test nuclear reactor on American soil in less than a year. On Tuesday, the Department of Energy picked 11 projects from 10 companies, including two projects from publicly ...

Oklo and LANL have conducted first plutonium fast reactor tests at NCERC, validating surplus fuel for advanced reactors like ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of two stories on Kairos Power’s plans for building test reactors in Oak Ridge this decade and nuclear power plants next decade using two technologies based on Oak ...

Section 1. Purpose. The United States led the development of civilian nuclear power through the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Reactor Testing Station (now known as Idaho National Laboratory), ...