Commercial nuclear-powered space missions face regulatory hurdles, and BOHR was the first commercial nuclear mission to pass ...

Four advanced nuclear reactors reached a self-sustaining chain reaction for the first time in the weeks before July 4, 2026, ...

Deep Fission delivers prototype reactor canister to Kansas, advancing underground SMR testing before nuclear fuel.

A tiny satellite launched by SpaceX on Tuesday may mark a large shift in how spacecraft get power. The small spacecraft, called BOHR, rode to orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-17 rideshare mission from ...

Aalo Atomics has achieved criticality for its Aalo-X Critical Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory, marking the first ...

A new nuclear reactor design skips fuel entirely—eliminating meltdown risk while testing a safer future for nuclear power.

Unity, a microreactor from Houston-based Deployable Energy, is the latest of the three to reach criticality as part of a ...

PHOENIX — Much of rural Arizona could soon be dotted with small "modular'' nuclear reactors. Legislation approved by the Senate and awaiting a House vote would strip supervisors in Arizona's 13 rural ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department says a small nuclear reactor under development at a national lab has reached a crucial milestone that could allow it to produce electricity within a few years.

Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use ...

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Existing generative AI models are built on batch processing: You give the system instructions; it runs computations; then spits back the results. Now comes a Silicon Valley startup that says it can ...