Valar Atomics' Ward 250 advanced reactor has completed a zero-power fuelled criticality demonstration, becoming the second to meet the 4 July deadline for the US Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot ...

Valar Atomics has achieved self-sustaining criticality and completed zero-power testing at Ward 250, its Gen IV tri-structural isotropic (TRISO)-fueled modular high-temperature gas reactor (HTGR), at ...

Valar Atomics Inc., a Southern California-based startup, has reached a key milestone in its effort to develop small reactors under a US program aimed at accelerating the deployment of nuclear power.

The Energy Department will provide $17.5 billion in loans to five projects that will each build two big nuclear reactors. The projects will use Westinghouse's AP1000 reactor design that can generate 1 ...

The United States has reached another milestone in its push to bring advanced nuclear technology from the drawing board to deployment. Valar Atomics announced that its Ward 250 reactor successfully ...

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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright visited the Idaho National Laboratory on Thursday after the first new-age nuclear reactor to switch on in more than 40 years did so at INL earlier this month. In an ...

WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) - Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a U.S. company attempting to generate electricity by replicating the process that fuels the stars, said on Wednesday it is joining a UK ...

The Trump Administration remains very bullish on nuclear power and committed to helping build a nuclear renaissance in the U.S. -- that's the good news. The bad news is that, financially speaking, ...

The Big Ten enters college football's 2026 season atop the college football hierarchy, coming off its third consecutive national championship, but projecting the conference race this fall is anything ...