Inside America's private nuclear energy effort
A Los Angeles-based company has built a small modular nuclear reactor prototype, in an effort to return the energy source to the grid globally.
'Nuclear was this incredible technology that we [America] created in the 1940s, scaled out in the 1950s, and unfortunately came to a halt,' Valar Atomics
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