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The kids who built nuclear reactors at home

Nuclear science isn't an easy thing, particularly building a working reactor, but there are a small handful of adolescents ...
Morning Overview on MSN

A startup just brought America’s first privately built nuclear reactor to criticality in Idaho, clearing it to start making power by 2027

Antares Nuclear achieved initial criticality of its Mark-0 reactor at Idaho National Laboratory earlier this week, making it ...
AOL

Homemade fusion reactor built by a 12-year-old draws national attention

“We got neutrons, yeah!” The shout came after years of after-school effort inside a Dallas home, where a seventh grader had been quietly assembling a machine most people only encounter in advanced ...
Boise State Public Radio

Nuclear reactor that could help humans live on the moon takes first ‘critical’ step

The microreactor from Antares, a private nuclear technology company, had a successful nuclear fission reaction for the first ...
AOL

A Teenager Built a Nuclear Reactor in His Backyard Shed. Then the Government Came Calling.

On June 26, 1995, residents of the quiet, unassuming subdivision of Golf Manor—located in Clinton Township 25 miles outside of Detroit—bore witness to a strange and otherworldly display. Eleven men ...

The 17-year-old did not need a secret facility: His backyard shed, old batteries, and smoke detectors were enough to scare a neighborhood

A teenager's backyard nuclear experiment alarmed federal agencies and turned a suburban shed into a cleanup site.
The Economist

Burying nuclear reactors might make them cleaner and cheaper

Sometimes an idea is so elegant that it really deserves to work. One such is a proposal put forward by the boss of Deep Fission, an aspiring nuclear-power firm in Berkeley, California. Elizabeth ...
NPR

Secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules are made public

The Department of Energy has made public a set of new rules that slash environmental and security requirements for experimental nuclear reactors. Last month, NPR reported on the existence of the rules ...