The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical. Using a ...
Chinese engineers identify a design flaw in NASA's lunar nuclear reactor, suggesting improvements that could boost efficiency ...
A team of researchers in the USA has come up with a revolutionary method capable of tracking chemical changes in molten salts ...
Constellation said in September it would invest $1.6 billion to overhaul the plant in a deal to supply energy for Microsoft ...
CEO Mike Laufer says that his reactors don't use fuel rods; they use fuel pebbles, about the size of golf balls – mostly graphite, with tiny kernels of uranium. And each pebble has as much power ...
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that can track chemical changes in molten salt in real ...
off-site storage of the highly radioactive fuel rods used to power nuclear reactors. Texas and Fasken are challenging the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's grant of a license to a venture ...
On Dec. 12, 1952, the world witnessed its first-ever nuclear reactor accident at Chalk River Laboratories right here in ...
Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...
Tests carried out on high burnup fast reactor fuel as part of a collaboration between the USA and Japan are the first of ...