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396 Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Reaches Criticality In First Test

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/05/2026 23:30 EDT

Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Reaches Criticality In First Test

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use of different -- and typically smaller -- reactor designs, only one of them has been fully licensed so far, and there are no plans to actually build any instances of that design.

The executive order directed the Department of Energy to have three different

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