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A new program at the Department of Energy is pushing the development of nearly a dozen new reactor designs at breakneck speed.
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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 power.
Last Energy will use the funds to build its 5 megawatt pilot reactor in Texas, which it hopes to turn on next year.
Big Tech has expanded investments in renewable energy to gas and nuclear plants in the race to power new data centers.
Though the two countries are now in a race to develop atomic technology, China’s most advanced reactor was the result of collaboration with American scientists.