A Trump administration pilot program aims for three nuclear startups to reach a key milestone by July 4, 2026. Valar Atomics says it’s the first to do so—but it had some help.

As part of next steps for the Janus Program, the Department of the Army has selected nine installations for consideration in which to

The startup’s achievement is impressive but underscores the quiet chaos of the nuclear industry following a series of sweeping executive orders in May.

The new generation of SMRs and advanced reactors are designed to be safer than the designs involved in historical failures, such as Three Mile Island, Fukushima and Chernobyl. Those accidents were caused by the loss of cooling water that caused the melt-down or partial melt-down of the reactors’ radioactive cores, Talabi said.

The state and Brigham City partnered with Hi Tech Solutions and Holtec International to advance energy manufacturing, workforce development and a fleet of small modular reactors

Scientists in Germany have engineered new ODS alloys and tungsten materials to extend the lifespan of fusion reactor walls.