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Research & Innovation
Nuclear research is compressing: DOE-authorized test reactors now go from groundbreaking to criticality in months, AI programs like Prometheus target licensing and design timelines, and national-lab test beds host first-of-a-kind hardware. NNN separates what's real from what's hype.
Prometheus says 32 partners. INL's own roster names 33.
Every press release says DOE's Prometheus AI-nuclear program has 32 partners. INL's own roster names 33 — and archived captures show it always has.
China hot-tests first MW-class helium turbine for reactors
China's CNNC ran the first hot power-generation test of a megawatt-class helium Brayton turbine, a step toward higher-efficiency gas-cooled reactors.
DOE picks 278 Genesis Mission projects; nuclear takes largest award
The US Department of Energy selected 278 Genesis Mission projects backed by $5B, with the $60M INL-led Prometheus nuclear project the largest award.
DOE puts $60M behind INL-led Prometheus to build reactors with AI
DOE awarded $60M over three years to the INL-led Prometheus project, a 32-partner push to apply AI across reactor design, licensing and construction.
Natrium, explained: TerraPower's reactor with a built-in battery
Natrium pairs a 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor with molten-salt storage that boosts output to 500 MWe — and it's now under construction in Wyoming.
Fusion, explained: three ways to bottle a star
Tokamaks, stellarators and laser-driven inertial confinement are three routes to the same prize: net energy from fusing light atoms. Here is how they differ.
US opens DOME, a first-of-a-kind microreactor test bed
Built inside the repurposed EBR-II containment at Idaho National Laboratory, the DOME test bed gives microreactor developers a fast track to fission testing.
