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Nuclear battery developer Zeno Power is to make a "multi-million dollar" investment to get priority access to americium-241 supplies from Orano's la Hague recycling site in France.

Zeno Power has signed an agreement to acquire nuclear waste that it can repurpose to power long-duration and deep-space missions.

This summer, a report commissioned by the Idaho National Lab (INL) recommended NASA take a new approach to developing space nuclear power systems.

Zeno Power, the Seattle-based nuclear battery startup, today announced the appointment of AC Charania, the former NASA chief technologist, as its new SVP of space business development.

Zeno Power, a cutting edge nuclear company, is making batteries powered with Strontium 90 for niche deployment cases: the moon, the arctic, and the seafloor.

Zeno is pioneering nuclear batteries, compact systems that recycle radioactive waste into safe, reliable power for years at a time.

The convergence of commercial demand, national security imperatives, and technological readiness presents a chance to reimagine America’s nuclear fuel cycle.

A new study recommends that the United States pursue rapid development of a space nuclear power system to keep pace with geopolitical rivals.

Researchers are fine-tuning a recipe at Zeno Power’s office-lab complex in Seattle’s South Lake Union district — but it’s not the kind of recipe you can taste-test.

Zeno Power, a nuclear battery startup, has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round to bring its nuclear battery to market.

Zeno Power Systems announced Jan. 26 it is working with the U.S. Department of Energy to recycle decades-old radioactive material to produce radioisotope power sources. Under the agreement with DOE, Zeno will have access to a large supply of strontium-90, a radioisotope created as a byproduct in nuclear fission reactors. The

Zeno Power secured $50 million in its latest funding round. The nuclear-battery maker now plans to roughly double its workforce and do full-scale system demonstrations next year.

Zeno Power says it has successfully completed its first demonstration of a new type of radioisotope heat source that could be used to generate off-grid power in settings ranging from the bottom of the ocean to the surface of the moon.

It’s a matter of when commercial missions will begin to use nuclear power on the Moon, not if, according to Zeno Power CEO Tyler Bernstein.

Zeno Power says it’s been awarded a $7.5 million contract from the Department of Defense to build and demonstrate a radioisotope power system that can provide distributed power on the seabed.

Nuclear energy company Zeno Power announced a major step forward on Friday in its bid to provide atomic power for civil and commercial missions to deep space. The company established a public-private partnership with the Department of Energy to repurpose nuclear waste into electricity for spacecraft. DOE recently transferred strontium-90 to a commercial nuclear facility, where Zeno Power will recycle the material for its systems, which convert the heat from the decay of unstable radioactive isotopes into electricity.

Zeno Power has designed, built and tested the first-ever commercially developed radioisotope heat source, with help from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The milestone means Zeno Power is on track to begin delivering radioisotope power systems, or RPSs, to customers in 2025.

Zeno Power's first full-scale radioisotope power systems will be fuelled by strontium-90 material recycled from a legacy radioisotope generator under a new public-private partnership with the US Department of Energy Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management. The company has also announced a partnership with Westinghouse to fabricate the heat sources for its systems.

Surviving the night requires heat and electricity, and NASA officials say nuclear power is one of the most attractive solutions to this problem.

Zeno Power says it has gained access to radioactive material destined for its first full-scale radioisotope power systems under the terms of a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy.

The demonstration, performed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, confirmed that Zeno's patented innovation increases the specific power of itsstrontium-90 (Sr-90) heat source compared to historic Sr-90 heat sources.