Engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have reached a critical milestone in the ...

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TerraPower’s project in Wyoming, which uses novel technology, is the first new commercial reactor to receive federal approval ...

The nuclear renaissance makes for an exciting investing opportunity. Two oft-discussed reactor developers are Westinghouse ...

Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor.

Ion beams can now qualify nuclear reactor materials up to 1,000 times faster than ...

An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets in ...

Theoretically, there's no better, more practical source of reliable, carbon-free energy than the current generation of nuclear reactors. In practice, the theory holds water, but there are still a few ...

Fabrication of the reactor core for the Project Pele prototype mobile microreactor - the first microreactor to be built and operated in the USA - has begun at BWX Technologies' Innovation Campus in ...

A Russian energy firm has started the operation of fifth-generation nuclear fuel assemblies, which have been loaded into the VVER-1200 reactor core of Novovoronezh. The process performed at Rosatom ...

Preliminary testing has taken place of an ultrasound system which is designed to provide an additional picture of the BN-800 fast neutron reactor core at Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant. Beloyarsk unit ...

The U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense transported a small nuclear reactor by cargo plane to demonstrate the rapid ...