In 2024, the K-33 site was excavated by a Kairos Power contractor, Barnard Construction Co. Inc., of Bozeman, Montana.

Several advanced nuclear reactor companies, including major player Kairos Power, are building facilities in Oak Ridge. X-energy has a $300 million footprint in Tennessee through its subsidiary TRISO-X ...

Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency," or DOGE, wielded that power to terminate the jobs of some federal workers at ...

Centrus Energy, formerly the United States Enrichment Corporation, announced in November it would invest $60 million to revive centrifuge manufacturing at its Oak Ridge plant. The centrifuges ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — A company who developed advanced ... The company develops lasers to excite and extract the uranium-235 isotope, which helps power nuclear reactors. According to the Office ...

Tennessee looks to go nuclear, working toward plans to build the country’s first small, modular nuclear reactor (SMR) in the Volunteer State.