Interesting Engineering

Lead-cooled nuclear reactors move closer to deployment with standardized grid design

Blykalla and Hitachi Energy will develop standardized grid connections and electrical systems for lead-cooled nuclear ...

3 Nuclear Startups Hit a Big Milestone. Why It Matters—and Why It Doesn’t

The companies’ Fourth of July plans include celebrating new reactor designs coming online. But there’s still a long way to go ...
Knoxville News Sentinel

TVA clears huge hurdle in race to build America's first small nuclear reactor

A federal agency that approves new nuclear projects said in a June report the Tennessee Valley Authority’s plans to build a small but highly advanced nuclear reactor along the Clinch River in Oak ...
Interesting Engineering

US nuclear battery meets July 4 goal as Unity reactor hits criticality in 150 days

Deployable Energy's one-megawatt (MW) nuclear battery has reached criticality, meeting the US goal of three new reactors ...
Morning Overview on MSN

A startup’s tiny nuclear reactor went live and will feed an almost waterless AI data center

Valar Atomics’ Ward 250 microreactor completed a zero-power fueled criticality demonstration, becoming the second advanced ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

Startup activates nuclear microreactor live on stage to power an Nvidia RTX Spark desktop PC

Will this solve the AI boom’s power and water bottlenecks?

New partnership touts nuclear-powered AI with minimal water use

Valar Atomics and Nvidia announced a collaboration to explore the development of a nearly waterless AI data center, powered ...

Valar nuclear startup partners with Nvidia on data center aiming to conserve water

Valar Atomics, a nuclear power startup, said on Wednesday it is partnering with Nvidia to ‌develop a small data center in ...