Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now, the plant’s owner is getting a $1.9B loan from the U.S. Energy Department.
A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital control system for a U.S. nuclear plant. It was, on paper, a beautiful machine—engineered to run itself the way a modern airliner does, with operators watching …
The biggest threat to any crewed expedition to Mars is time. NASA’s shortest blueprint for sending people to the Red Planet and back requires spending 620 days in space and 30 days on Mars. Even setting aside the compounding challenges of building lif…
Y Combinator alumnus Apollo Atomics is shrinking a key nuclear reactor part, which promises to slash the cost of electricity below natural gas.
TerraPower’s nuclear power plant possesses a strategic advantage over competitors, especially when chasing after data center deals.
Antares has raised $470 million to build small modular reactors — 100 kW to 1 MW — for U.S. Air Force bases.
The potential deal highlights a growing trend of complex, multi-stage funding rounds that mask true entry prices.
A half century ago, a scrappy crew at the University of Massachusetts Amherst erected a wind turbine on Orchard Hill, the highest point on campus. It was a frugal production, cobbled together from the rear axle of a Ford truck, a donated generator and…
The U.S. government is sitting on dozens of tons of weapons-grade plutonium. It’s hoping startups can find a use for it.
Deep Fission is seeking an IPO that could raise $157 million, though investors may have trouble buying the nuclear startup’s story.