Trump admin wants nuclear startups to use plutonium for their reactors
For decades, the U.S. has had a plutonium problem. Around 100 tons of the stuff was made during the Cold War to go into powerful atomic bombs. But as nuclear…
Nuclear startup Deep Fission says it’s going public, again, and I have questions
One news headline this week had a whiff of déjà vu about it. Nuclear startup Deep Fission announced that it was going public, hoping to garner investor support to build…
X-energy stock pops 27% on first day of trading following upsized IPO
X-energy’s stock popped today in its debut on the Nasdaq, opening at $30.11 before closing at $29.20, up 27% over its initial public offering of $23 per share. Investors can’t…
The Nuclear Company raises $46M to develop massive reactor sites
The Nuclear Company is taking an old approach to building new nuclear reactors. Rather than gin up a new design or try to mass manufacture smaller reactors, it wants to…
Google inks deal to develop 1.8 GW of advanced nuclear power
Google and nuclear site developer Elementl Power announced this week that they will work together on three sites for advanced nuclear reactors. The tech company has been rushing to lock…
Nuclear startup Terrestrial Energy goes public via SPAC, netting $280 million in merger
Terrestrial Energy, a small nuclear startup, merged with an acquisition company on Wednesday. The Canadian company is developing small modular reactors and expects to net $280 million from the deal.…
How DeepSeek’s efficient AI could stall the nuclear renaissance
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek stunned the world with the release of its R1 model, which appears to perform nearly as well as leading models from Google and OpenAI, despite the…
Nuclear startup Deep Fission plans to bury micro-reactors to power data centers
Back in the 1950s, the U.S. started detonating nuclear bombs underground to limit the fallout, both radioactive and sociopolitical, unleashed by aboveground testing. Hundreds of feet of rock formed a…
Meta jumps aboard the nuclear-powered data center bandwagon
Earlier this year, Meta tried to get its own nuclear powered data center the easy way, by building one next to an existing reactor. But after regulators threw cold water…
Future Google supplier Kairos gets approval to build two small nuclear reactors
Nuclear startup Kairos Power received approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to start construction on two test reactors in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The permit marks a significant milestone for…