As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that ...

You might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities spanning hundreds of acres. Nuclear microreactors, by contrast, could sit on land the size of a football field and power a whole town.

With $800 million in federal aid, developers of light-water small modular reactors are racing to build supply chains, including fuel fabrication, as they aim to rapidly roll out fleets in the early ...

Rolls-Royce has halted a taxpayer-backed plan to put a mini nuclear reactor on the Moon. The engineering giant drew up plans to develop a lunar power source for the UK Space Agency and was handed £9m ...

Yokogawa will design and deliver the main control system for Rolls-Royce SMR's small modular reactor fleet, starting with UK and Czech plants.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Leonel Lagos, Florida International University (THE CONVERSATION) As U.S. electricity ...