Across a few of its business arms, Rolls-Royce has been working on building nuclear systems that can keep things running in the space environment. Now, the company has secured a contract with NASA to develop additional supporting technology for those spacecraft.
A Swedish SMR developer just got funding to take the next step in development. Blykalla announced this week that it secured 80M SEK ($7.3M) in new funding from investors.
The final hot reactor at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant in Ukraine is in cold shutdown after the site was targeted by a drone on Tuesday—an escalation of the conflict that could put the plant in jeopardy.
Even as the nuclear renaissance emerges, the fact remains that fossil fuels aren’t going anywhere. But that doesn’t mean that nuclear producers can’t wedge themselves into the oil market.
A government watchdog is wagging a finger at the NRC for its backward-looking approach when it comes to preparing for climate change.
TerraPower’s construction permit application for an advanced nuclear plant is officially in the NRC’s hands.
Fusion startups are racing to develop the holy grail of clean energy: near-limitless power that’s free of carbon emissions and radioactive waste. According to US President of Tokamak Energy Michael Ginsberg, they can’t do it alone.
Michael Crabb, SVP of commercial at Last Energy, has spent his career working in energy investment and financing. For him, when it comes down to it, all the groundbreaking technology in the world don’t mean a thing if it doesn’t fill a need and compete on price.
Despite the ongoing war in Ukraine and heightened geopolitical tensions across the board, the US just hasn’t been able to buck its reliance on Russian uranium imports to feed the ravenous fleet of domestic fission reactors. That’s a problem for the US government as it looks to attain energy independence from foreign adversaries. Last week, […]
Blue Laser Fusion is hard at work building a fusion generator it plans to commercialize within the decade. Yesterday, the company announced the closing of a $37.5M seed round to advance its growth and tech development.
