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.

In a four-part series, our podcast “Babbage” pulls back the curtain on the vast scientific infrastructure that America has created to build, maintain and upgrade its nuclear weapons. From the turn of ...

It's developing Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology, offering a scalable and cost-effective energy. Global power demand is projected to surge 165%, particularly from data centers, by the end of the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic has rolled out a tool to detect talk about nuclear weapons, the company said in a Thursday blog post. “Nuclear technology is inherently dual-use: the same ...

Imagine, if you will, that for unknown reasons North Korea has just launched a nuclear bomb at the United States. What happens next? The journalist Annie Jacobsen has imagined exactly that, and spent ...

The U.S. data center industry is calling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to streamline nuclear licensing, as power-hungry technologies like artificial intelligence and cloud computing drive ...

Deep Isolation Nuclear, Inc. (“Deep Isolation” or the “Company”), a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, today announced the submission of ...

Factories could one day produce and ship small nuclear reactors across the country. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy You might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities ...