Nicknamed “Chicago Pile-1,” the world’s first nuclear reactor kicked off the Atomic Age and has a complicated legacy, including the rise of both nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. As physicists came ...

Fusion researchers are increasingly turning to the element tungsten when looking for an ideal material for components that will directly face the plasma inside fusion reactors known as tokamaks ...

In what it calls "the world's first corporate agreement to purchase nuclear energy from multiple small modular reactors," Google has taken another step toward its goal of achieving net-zero ...

That same month, Oracle announced that it is designing a 1-gigawatt data center that will be powered by a trio of small nuclear reactors. “The location and the power place we’ve located ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Amazon has announced plans to develop four nuclear reactors along the Columbia River in Washington in an effort to consistently achieve net-zero carbon. The facility ...

As Amazon announces three major nuclear deals, AWS CEO Matt Garman told Forbes he sees unique potential for advanced, small reactors to provide widespread clean power. Amazon is betting big on ...

The power needs of Google’s insatiable data centers might eventually be met by small modular nuclear reactors — emphasis on might and eventually. Search giant Google and startup Kairos Power ...

Small modular reactors (SMRs) have long held the promise of cheaper, more efficient nuclear energy. Their smaller, standardized designs were expected to usher in a new era for an industry ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Alphabet's Google said on Monday it signed the world's first corporate agreement to buy power from multiple small modular reactors to meet electricity demand for artificial ...

The US is in talks with several Southeast Asian nations about deploying small modular nuclear reactors, as global interest in the low-carbon energy source increases. American officials have ...

Stopping off-the-wall behavior in fusion reactors Boron could help the tungsten wall inside a tokamak keep its atoms to itself Date: October 7, 2024 Source: DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ...