The next generation of nuclear power — advanced reactors designs, passive safety, and the innovations reshaping the industry, analyzed honestly.
A nuclear microreactor is small enough to build in a factory and ship on a truck. A reactor engineer explains what it is, how it differs from an SMR, and whether the trucks will really roll.
On the afternoon of June 04, 2026, in a test building at Idaho National Laboratory, a small machine called Mark-0 reactor did something no privately built reactor of its kind had done on American soil in over forty years: it came alive. Mark-0 was built by a California startup named Antares Nuclear that didn’t exist…
A dying Wyoming coal town, a Bill Gates reactor, and Meta’s AI data centers — the story of Natrium, the reactor that works like a giant battery.
The first reactor to make electricity was a fast reactor. Seventy years later it’s still called the reactor of the future — but in 2026, that finally started to change.