During World War II, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was the site of testing grounds where early scientists were trying to ...

The facility, a small modular reactor (SMR) created in collaboration with Energy Northwest, will be stationed near the Columbia Generating Station nuclear energy facility in Richland, Wash.

The U.S. Department of Energy is expected to loan 80% of the total cost of the X-energy reactor project, which is slated for a site next to Energy Northwest’s Columbia Generating Station ...

Corvallis-based NuScale is a leading player among a handful of SMR wannabes. A competitor, X-Energy, last fall won backing ...