Zap Energy says its ultimate goal is safe, clean energy from fusion. To help get there, it’s starting to build fission reactors. By Raymond Zhong Atomic fusion has long been seen as the ultimate ...

As if the U.S. grids weren’t stressed enough, AI data centers threaten to overwhelm them further with their massive energy demands. To address these challenges, researchers in Utah are entertaining ...

Nobody said building a fusion power plant would be easy. Physicists and engineers have been working for decades to crack the problem. But over the last year or so, fusion startup Zap Energy took a ...

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A working Iron Man repulsor build turns science, engineering and cosplay into a real hydrogen-powered flame demonstration. The video follows the creation of a functional chest-mounted reactor designed ...

Zap Energy, a Seattle-area fusion startup, has become the first in its sector to incorporate nuclear fission into its business model, aiming to sell modular reactors while developing its Z-pinch ...

Small modular reactors (SMRs) represent a new generation of nuclear power, promising cheaper, safer, and more versatile clean energy. In this article, IDTechEx investigates why SMRs are gaining ...

The results are good news for the thorium-HALEU fuel cycle, set to grow in relevance as advanced reactors grow smaller and abundant. Reading time 2 minutes Last year, a private-public collaboration ...

In the coming months, the University of Utah's TRIGA research reactor will be used to produce electricity to power a mini AI data centre as part of proof-of-concept for powering full-scale data ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Buckley Space Force Base may soon go nuclear. The military recently chose the base in Aurora as the potential host of a nuclear microreactor to produce ...

A Massachusetts-based fusion company took another step this week in its race to become the first to get the same power fueling the sun and stars onto the US electrical grid. Commonwealth Fusion ...