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OPINION: How to harness the potential of nuclear power in the maritime sector

Nuclear power’s ability to optimize power generation in shipping has attracted attention and the journey to cleaner maritime energy is gaining momentum.

Aalo Atomics claims “provisional” site for reactor demo at INL

Aalo expects to test its “fully modular civil construction technology for the reactor building and balance-of-plant,” as well as the Aalo-X reactor itself.

U.S. Department of Energy Grants Tentative Site for Aalo Atomics Experimental Microreactor

The U.S. Department of Energy has identified a piece of land at Idaho National Laboratory as a potential site for Aalo Atomics to build a new experimental reactor facility. The new facility will be used to advance the company’s commercial Aalo-1 microreactor design that the company hopes to deploy before the end of the decade.

Facebook Joins the Club ~ Nuclear Power for Data Centers

META, the parent firm of Facebook, announced it will release a request for proposals to identify nuclear energy developers targeting 1-4 gigawatts of new nuclear generation capacity in the U.S.

Aalo Atomics Gets Go-Ahead To Continue Siting Efforts For Prototype Nuclear Plant

Texas-based nuclear startup Aalo Atomics has received the green light from the Idaho operations office of the US Department of Energy (DOE) to pursue further authorisation for deploying its Aalo-X experimental reactor at the site of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).

Westinghouse, Core Power join forces for floating nuclear power plant

Westinghouse Electric Company and Core Power are going to work together on the design and development of a floating nuclear power plant using the eVinci microreactor.

Oklo reactor pipeline swells to 2.1 GW as demonstration project advances

Oklo has received nonbinding letters of intent to provide up to 750 MW from its Aurora powerhouse reactors to two major data center operators, expanding its project pipeline to approximately 2,100 MW.

DOE Awards $5 Million for Second Phase of Advanced Reactor Experiment Designs

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today awarded a total of $5 million to Radiant Industries, Inc. and Westinghouse to progress their microreactor designs for testing in the new Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments (DOME) test bed at Idaho National Laboratory.

Radiant Completes Study for First Kaleidos Microreactor Experiment

Radiant Industries has completed the front-end engineering and experiment design (FEEED) phase to test a prototype of its Kaleidos microreactor at Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

SMR firm Oklo promises 750MW of nuclear power to two data center operators

Small modular reactor (SMR) and nuclear fuel recycling company Oklo has partnered with two undisclosed data center providers to deliver up to 750MW of power.