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 ...
Small, transportable and mass-produced “microreactors” are seen as part of the future of nuclear power. Westinghouse ...
Enriched Lithium is a critical ingredient in fusion reactors. Making it is a toxic nightmare, but scientists may have found a ...
Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a way to do this without using toxic mercury ...
A team of researchers in the USA has come up with a revolutionary method capable of tracking chemical changes in molten salts ...
Faced with the need to cut carbon emissions, and an increasing energy demand to power AI, companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon are investing in nuclear, from restarting Three Mile Island, to ...
Parts of the control-rod drive mechanism ... About 880 tons of highly radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three ...
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 ...
On Dec. 12, 1952, the world witnessed its first-ever nuclear reactor accident at Chalk River Laboratories right here in ...
Russia's A.I. Leypunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering has begun tests to study the neutron-physical ...
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that can track chemical changes in molten salt in real ...