Why it matters: A new Department of Energy pilot program is testing a faster, less traditional path for bringing advanced nuclear reactors from concept to operation, reshaping long-standing ...

Congress passed energy provisions in the annual defense bill that could help spur the development of advanced nuclear reactors. Congress passed energy provisions in the annual defense bill that could ...

In May, President Trump sat in the Oval Office flanked by executives from America’s nuclear power industry. “It’s a hot industry. It’s a brilliant industry,” the president said from behind the ...

Last week, Deep Fission broke ground on a pilot program to bury small modular reactors underground in Parsons, Kansas. This project is the first of its kind in the United States, and comes as part of ...

The answer is more complicated than it used to be, as multiple federal agencies are responsible for new nuclear reactors. Each story invokes an alphabet soup of acronyms — DOE, NRC, DoD, LPO, PTC, PPA ...

PARSONS, Kan. (KWCH) - The City of Parsons is celebrating a project anticipated to bring the next generation of manufacturers to the Great Plains Industrial Park. On Tuesday, California-based Deep ...

Parsons, Kansas, may be the site of a California startup’s first ever 1-mile-deep nuclear reactor — with support from county commissioners, both Republican Kansas U.S. senators and Democratic Gov.

PARSONS, Kan. (KWCH) - A nuclear energy company plans to break ground next week on a first-of-its-kind nuclear reactor in southeast Kansas. Deep Fission, Inc., based in Berkeley, Calif., selected the ...

A California-based nuclear energy company with plans to place small modular reactors (SMRs) in mile-deep boreholes said it will break ground December 9 for a pilot project at a site in Parsons, Kansas ...

Steady nuclear energy is in high demand this time of year. As many of us are ramping up with shopping, baking, and planning for the holiday season, nuclear power plants are also getting ready for one ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has chosen a Holtec project in western Michigan as one of two nationally to receive hundreds of millions of federal dollars to develop the first small modular nuclear ...

Two more nuclear companies have been awarded large grants by the Trump administration. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Holtec will each receive $400 million from the Department of Energy to ...