Atomic energy is back, thanks to the ravenous demands of AI, favoritism from Trump, and the zeal of young entrepreneurs raising billions to build mini-reactors.
ByChristopher Helman,
Forbes Staff
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Tech giants are looking for more energy, but building new reactors takes time.
On a cloudy day in late March, Isaiah Taylor, the 27-year-old founder and chief executive of Valar Atomics, a Hawthorne,…
Nuclear startup Aalo Atomics plans to turn on its first power plant, the 50-megawatt Aalo-X, in the summer of 2026. It's an…
Meta, Google, Amazon, and more all hope to lean on a nuclear construction boom to power AI.
A ‘second nuclear age’ looms, but the industry faces a major uranium problem.
AtkinsRéalis is pursuing US licensing for its CANDU reactor technology to power AI data centers, partnering with NVIDIA and…
