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For decades, the U.S. has had a plutonium problem. Around 100 tons of the stuff was made during the Cold…

One news headline this week had a whiff of déjà vu about it. Nuclear startup Deep Fission announced that it…

During the Trinity nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert—the world’s very first test of an…

Nuclear startup X-energy raised $1 billion in its initial public offering yesterday, selling 44.3 million shares for $23 each, a…

Instead, Kamluk saw that it was a self-spreading piece of code with very different intentions. Using what was referred to…

As the grid strains under the weight of electrification and AI data centers, tech companies and utilities have been evaluating…

Fermi co-founder and CEO Toby Neugebauer and CFO Miles Everson have suddenly departed the AI nuclear power firm, sending shares…

Having demonstrated that it has the operational capability to transport humans safely to the moon and back, the United States…

Fusion power has always been a bit of a contradiction. The fusion part is actually kind of easy — an undergrad…

Into the second month of the US-Iran war, the conflict in the Gulf continues to escalate—airstrikes widening, oil markets reacting,…

President Donald Trump and top defense officials are reportedly weighing whether to send ground troops to Iran in order to…

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) gave TerraPower the go-ahead this week to build a new nuclear reactor in the shadow…

Supercomputers can be measured in several ways, but the vital statistic is their ability to perform floating-point operations per second,…

For half a century, the world’s nuclear powers relied on an intricate and complex series of treaties that slowly and…

The Doomsday Clock has just been set to 85 seconds to midnight. Nearly 80 years after its creation, this time…

For the last several months, nuclear startups have been raising large sums of money — well over $1 billion so far.…