EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / February 17, 2026 / Radiant, a leader in portable, mass-produced nuclear microreactors, today announced a strategic investment from Lockheed Martin through ...

New simulations from Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory suggest that deliberately engineering plasma rotation inside tokamak fusion reactors could dramatically reduce the heat loads that destroy ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is quietly tackling one of fusion energy’s toughest engineering problems: turning raw neutron bombardment into manageable heat. At the center of that effort is a new ...

A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...

New Zealand-based fusion energy startup OpenStar Technologies says it has become the first commercial company in the world to successfully create and confine plasma using a levitated dipole reactor.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued its first construction permit for a commercial nuclear reactor in eight ...

Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

TerraPower recently signed a deal with Meta to build up to eight advanced reactors in the U.S.

In late 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a historic nuclear fusion breakthrough by creating a fusion reaction that produced more energy than the lasers used to create it. This ...

Aalo Atomics, a US developer of sodium-cooled small modular reactors for data centres, has signed a fuel fabrication contract ...

Lockheed secured a $1.9 billion Air Force contract to produce and support C-130J training systems under the JMATS IV program ...

Fusion power moves closer to commercialization. Storing data for 10,000 years. Why AI won’t necessarily take your job. All that and more in this week’s edition of The Prototype. To get it in your ...