WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. on Wednesday opened applications for up to $900 million in funding to support the initial domestic deployment of small modular reactor nuclear technology.

Just weeks after Microsoft said it will buy nuclear power to supply its AI-focused data centers, Google announced Oct. 14 it is entering into a deal it claims is the first U.S. corporate energy ...

Kairos tries to advance the technology a step further by cooling the reactor not with water but with molten salts of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ...

Google plans to buy electricity from next-generation nuclear reactors. It announced the deal yesterday, which it says is the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase electricity from ...

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Amazon said Wednesday it’s investing in projects to develop small modular nuclear reactors, or SMRs. The announcement comes days after Google unveiled a similar plan, as both companies seek to ...

Kairos’ particular design uses molten salts of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride to cool its reactors rather than water. Supporters of SMRs say they are also inherently safer than ...

Kairos is trying to go one step further than existing SMRs, using a novel cooling technology for its reactors that relies on molten salts of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride instead of ...

That same month, Oracle announced that it is designing a 1-gigawatt data center that will be powered by a trio of small nuclear reactors. “The location and the power place we’ve located ...

Google has signed a deal with Kairos Power to build a fleet of small modular nuclear reactors to power its data centers, the tech giant announced Monday. The small modular reactors, a type of next ...

Google announced an agreement with California-based Kairos Power to bring small modular reactors (SMR ... provide for Google are cooled with molten fluoride salts instead of water.

Unlike traditional nuclear reactors, which use water as a coolant, Kairos Power's innovation employs molten fluoride salt. Google anticipates the first reactor will be operational by 2030 ...