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What are small modular reactors, a new type of nuclear power plant sought to feed AI’s energy demand?

All the different types of small modular reactors generate heat the same way: by splitting heavy atoms and capturing the heat ...
Science Daily

Nanomaterials used to measure nuclear reaction on radioactive nuclei produced in neutron star collisions

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...
Smithsonian Magazine

On This Day in 1951, Four Illuminated Lightbulbs in Idaho Were Evidence of the First Time a Nuclear Power Plant Generated Electricity

Deep in the sagebrush steppe of southeast Idaho on December 20, 1951, a team of nuclear physicists gathered around four 200-watt lightbulbs dangling from a slack wire. Then, Harold Lichtenberger, the ...
FIU News

What are small modular reactors, a new type of nuclear power plant sought to feed AI’s energy demand?

As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that ...
SFGate

What are small modular reactors, a new type of nuclear power plant sought to feed AI’s energy demand?

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Leonel Lagos, Florida International University (THE CONVERSATION) As U.S. electricity ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

What are small modular reactors, a new type of nuclear power plant sought to feed AI’s energy demand?

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. (THE CONVERSATION) As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more ...