Small nuclear plants—better known as Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)—have become one of the most heated energy debates of the decade. Governments, international agencies, and emerging energy companies ...

On April 26, 1986, during a poorly managed safety test and partly due to inherent defects in the plant, reactor number 4 at ...

As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that ...

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Small, possibly portable, nuclear reactors that can’t melt down are moving toward reality in the United States, with what may be the first two coming online or beginning construction this year. The US ...

In January, Ontario Energy Minister Stephen Lecce told a room full of business and energy officials that communities across the province have been “petitioning us for a small modular reactor.” The ...

China plans to launch commercial operations at the world’s first small modular reactor (SMR) to generate nuclear energy as early as in the first half of 2026, according to the president of the China ...