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Global interest in fast reactors has been growing since their inception in 1960 because they can provide efficient, safe and sustainable energy. Their closed fuel cycle can support long-term nuclear ...

The experiment aims to provide scientists an opportunity to examine the safety and physics of a molten chloride fast reactor ...

Russia’s Federal Service for Ecological, Technological & Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor) has authorised nuclear utility ...

From a plasma physics perspective ... more mature options (fast reactors and accelerator hybrids) that will be competitive technologically and economically, with the ultimate winner to be determined.

This joint research project will focus on developing instrumentation technology and associated modelling for liquid metal cooled fast reactors. The US partners ... advance the understanding of the ...

Not only is there a lack of standardized computational tools for reactor physics simulations ... aims to build the world’s first critical fast-spectrum molten salt reactor, with the goal ...

Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom says it has created a technology for processing liquid radioactive sodium coolant ...

This is where fast neutron reactors are highly attractive. Fast neutron reactors can also fission other fissile elements, covering the full spectrum of neutron cross sections. TerraPower’s ...

The industry ministry picked Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. as a company to play the core role in developing a next-generation nuclear reactor with a demonstration sodium-cooled fast reactor ...