The Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office established the Project Pele endeavor in 2019 with the goal of producing a transportable micronuclear reactor. This energy source would be ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) joined today with Idaho National Laboratory, the U.S. Army and the Department of War Strategic Capabilities Office to announce ...

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BOISE, Idaho — The recent delivery of advanced nuclear fuel to the Idaho National Laboratory's Transient Reactor Test Facility marks a major milestone for Project Pele, a first-of-its-kind mobile ...

The Pentagon is fueling its push for portable nuclear power with high-assay low-enriched uranium, or HALEU, a next-generation fuel used by many advanced reactor designs. Under the Department of ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - The Idaho National Lab is celebrating the arrival of a special kind of fuel called TRISO. TRISO stands for tri-structural isotropic particle fuel. This fuel will power ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — The recent delivery of advanced nuclear fuel to the Idaho National Laboratory’s Transient Reactor Test Facility marks a major milestone for Project Pele, a first-of-its-kind ...

The US military is betting next-generation nuclear reactors can solve its portable power problems without the typical safety concerns. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...

The US Department of Defense has broken ground at Idaho National Laboratory for the Project Pele prototype mobile microreactor. It will become the USA's first electricity-generating Generation IV ...