At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, a half-dozen workers are making what appear to be gray billiard balls.

In a recent experiment, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics sustained a stable plasma reaction in the ...

Rockville-based X-Energy is helping to meet the worldwide demand for nuclear power in a venture backed by Gov. Wes Moore and the state commerce department.

Advanced-reactor developer X-energy will move its headquarters to Gaithersburg and open a new test-and-training center in ...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright issued an emergency order that authorized a local power plant to operate more often than typically allowed.

X-energy’s simplified, modular, and intrinsically safe SMR design expands applications and markets for deployment of nuclear technology and drives enhanced safety, lower cost and faster ...

X-energy, a Maryland-based company, uses uranium to make so-called TRISO fuel — inside what’s known as “pebbles.” Those are the billiard balls. The Energy Department says it’s the most ...

X-energy, a Maryland-based company, uses uranium to make so-called TRISO fuel — inside what's known as “pebbles.” Those are the billiard balls.

X-energy also plans to make fuel products for other advanced reactor designs. The national laboratory lends X-energy its expertise, research and high-tech equipment for analysis and will evaluate ...