Since initiating the program’s design phase two years ago, the DARPA-NASA management team has encountered the challenges inherent in sending a nuclear reactor into space for the first time in ...

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Renditions of NANO Nuclear Energy’s newly acquired technologies: Pylon for terrestrial (bottom) and space (top) applications and the Modular Micro Reactor (MMR®) Energy System (right).

This is an important achievement that takes the reactor into its operational phase now, bringing us closer to generating clean and limitless energy using nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion reactors ...

Enron, the scandalous energy company that went bust in 2001, has just announced the creation of its at-home nuclear reactor, or did it? The egg-shaped reactor is said to cut the costs of traditional ...

This means they use water as both a coolant and neutron moderator to control the nuclear reaction and produce useful electricity. However, the growing need for more clean energy is prompting ...

Acquisition also brings important contracts, collaboration and adds to existing pipeline of cutting edge small nuclear reactor technologies New York, N.Y., Jan. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE ...

As CES product launches flood the internet faster than you can say consumer tech, you may have come across the “Enron Egg,” a micro nuclear reactor that promises to power your home for 10 ...

The top US nuclear regulator is on a mission to streamline approvals for new reactors and accelerate power-plant construction. “We can be more efficient,” Christopher Hanson, chairman of the ...

Example nuclear reactions include radioactive decay, fission, the break-up of a nucleus, and fusion, the merging of nuclei.

One of the pranksters behind “Birds Aren’t Real” is back to revive a company synonymous with corporate malfeasance — it has merch and what it’s claiming is an at-home nuclear reactor.

Commercial nuclear reactors on the grid today, and most of those currently under construction, generally follow a similar blueprint: The fuel that powers the reactor is low-enriched uranium ...