From Arctic research stations to isolated mine sites, the hardest places on the planet to power have long depended on diesel drums and fragile supply chains. A new generation of portable nuclear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Factories could one day produce and ship small nuclear reactors across the country. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear ...

The U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense transported a small nuclear reactor by cargo plane to demonstrate the rapid deployment potential of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) for military and civilian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Are microreactors the future of nuclear energy? Someday, nuclear reactors the size of shipping containers could power your ...

If your image of nuclear power is giant, cylindrical concrete cooling towers pouring out steam on a site that takes up hundreds of acres of land, soon there will be an alternative: tiny nuclear ...

The ongoing quest for sustainable and low-carbon energy solutions has led to the emergence of a number of innovative technologies. The vision of reducing carbon footprints while maintaining ...

The US Departments of Energy and Defense transported a small nuclear reactor, or microreactor, ...

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. I’m ...

Unlike conventional expensive production processes, this technology has enabled an inexpensive production process that combines technologies of fine shape transfer, film formation, and selective thin ...

In a significant step towards improving the design of future catalysts and catalytic reactors, especially for microfluidic "lab-on-a-chip" devices, researchers have successfully applied magnetic ...

Powering a remote zinc mine located roughly 600 miles northwest of Anchorage, Alaska, is a Herculean task. Governments and industry have taken a particular interest in remote arctic mining locations, ...

There is high market potential for microreactors in US states with energy-intensive industries, nuclear-friendly laws and widespread social acceptance, according to a new report by Idaho National ...