Nuclear reactor core optimization is a critical area of research in nuclear engineering, focusing on improving the arrangement and efficiency of fuel assemblies within a reactor. The goal is to ...

Argonne National Laboratory is developing Gen-IV nuclear reactors, including sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs).

Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV): A robust container that holds the nuclear reactor core and coolant, designed to withstand high pressure and temperature. Creep Failure: A type of material failure ...

All U.S. nuclear reactors, which currently provide more than half of the nation's carbon-free power, are first- or ...

Nuclear fission has long been a cornerstone ... As they travel from a reactor core, they carry vital information about the reactor's operations, including power output and isotopic composition.

Carter responded to Three Mile Island accident Another energy crisis hit Carter closer to home on March 28, 1979, when a ...

Oklo, a nuclear start-up, aims to design, build, and operate small modular reactors, projecting their first plant by late ...

The Chalk River NRX reactor incident was the world’s first nuclear reactor core meltdown ... was serving on a nuclear submarine. He had a background of engineering and had learned nuclear ...

Hyman Rickover, the "Father of the Nuclear Navy ... It ruptured the reactor and flooded the facility's basement with radioactive water, rendering the reactor core unusable.