America's Department of Energy (DoE) has named ten companies it will work with to test advanced atomic reactor projects outside of the agency's world-famous national laboratories, in line with President Trump's Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program.

The DoE announced the program in June, following a Trump Executive Order that revised the way reactor evaluation and testing is handled by the organization, claiming the Federal Government had "effectively throttled the domestic deployment of advanced reactors."

In response, this latest initiative seeks to establish a pathway for the private sector to get in on the action, from advanced reactor demonstration through to fast-track commercial licensing.

In line with its goal of accelerating new nuclear power generators into service, the Reactor Pilot

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