The companies’ Fourth of July plans include celebrating new reactor designs coming online. But there’s still a long way to go before they deliver energy at a meaningful scale. Three startups are ...

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Another non-light reactor has reached criticality under the Department of Energy’s reactor pilot program, as California-based Valar Atomics achieved the milestone on June 18. Valar Atomics conducted ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Ward 250 reactor pressure vessel being transported to Utah site.Valar Atomics The United States has reached another milestone in its push to bring advanced nuclear technology from the drawing board to ...

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.