The US Department of Energy announced up to $17.5 billion in conditional loans to build ten new nuclear reactors across five projects, aiming to revitalize domestic nuclear power amid rising energy de…
Three nuclear startups achieved reactor criticality ahead of President Trump's July 4, 2026 deadline, with Valar Atomics powering an Nvidia chip on July 1. Antares Nuclear reached criticality first on…
The US government has inserted itself into the distribution chain of GPT-5.6, approving access customer by customer without published criteria, public denial lists, or appeals processes. This opaque g…
The Department of Energy's Genesis Mission aims to double U.S. research and development productivity within a decade by leveraging AI, high-performance computing, and quantum systems. Undersecretary D…
The United States and Canada announced plans to build ten new nuclear reactors each, with Canada targeting completion by 2040 and Westinghouse aiming for 2030, to meet surging energy demands from AI, …
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has used artificial intelligence to slash some licensing reviews from four years to nine months, Chief Data Officer and Deputy Chief AI Officer Basia Sall announced o…
The Trump administration unveiled the Aires Tide, an 11-foot AI-designed nuclear test flight vehicle, at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall. The National Nuclear Security Administratio…
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) is preparing legislation to mandate government safety reviews of advanced AI models, arguing that voluntary industry compliance is insufficient to address risks such as cyb…
President Trump announced a nearly $700 million federal support package on June 4, using the Defense Production Act to fund coal plant upgrades, a new export terminal, and two new coal facilities in A…
Constellation Energy has cleared a key regulatory hurdle for its $1.6 billion plan to restart the Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor by 2027, now renamed the Christopher M. Crane Clean Energy Center. Th…
A team at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the Frontier supercomputer to run the largest-ever simulation of the observable universe, tracking over 4 trillion particles acr…