No one has made a fusion reactor capable of generating power, but physicists have a pretty good road map for how to get there. One major milestone is heating fusion fuel up above 10 million degrees ...

The scientific community has a plan for achieving fusion power. It involves getting a better understanding of how to control fusion in a tokamak-style reactor using the currently under construction ...

Antares Nuclear, Inc. announced Thursday that its Mark-0 microreactor achieved criticality at Idaho National Laboratory, becoming the first advanced reactor to reach the milestone under a U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department says a small nuclear reactor under development at a national lab has reached a crucial milestone that could allow it to produce electricity within a few years.

Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – The U.S. Department of Energy says a nuclear reactor at the Idaho National Lab reached a critical milestone that could allow it to produce electricity by 2027. The reactor, called ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Antares today announced that its Mark-0 microreactor achieved initial criticality at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) under U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) ...

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Existing generative AI models are built on batch processing: You give the system instructions; it runs computations; then spits back the results. Now comes a Silicon Valley startup that says it can ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Last August U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who at the time was also the acting administrator of NASA, ...

INDEPENDENCE, Kan. — Concerns are growing in southeast Kansas over plans to build what would be the first “gravity nuclear reactor” at the Great Plains Industrial Park near Parsons. Residents in both ...