Iran’s nuclear program in ruins as US blockade tightens in conflict
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! In the four months and three weeks since combat began with Iran, the United States has lost 17 or 18 of its…
Nuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation
Valar Atomics, a startup building small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) — essentially miniaturized, factory-built power plants designed to be cheaper and faster to deploy than traditional reactors — is in…
Nuclear energy could be in for a big decade
The global nuclear energy industry has been muted since 2011, when the Fukushima Daiichi disaster unfolded in Japan. Some new reactors have been built — especially in China — but…
Holtec bets big on small nuclear reactors in its IPO…
“We believe that our SMR-300 plant can become a favored nuclear generation source over large reactors because of certain advantages,” the company said in its filing. The future of restarts The…
America’s first nuclear plant restart may be near the…
What went into the restart Holtec took on the project in two parts. The first involved overhauling the reactor side of the plant, where atom-splitting reactions produce enormous amounts of…
A safer nuclear fuel is gaining steam — but cost…
If operations begin as expected by 2031, the plant alone would slash the price of TRISO in half, said Erik Nygaard, BWXT’s director of product development. Recent supply contracts from…