Burnable absorbers are key components in modern nuclear reactor design, serving to mitigate the excess reactivity inherent in fresh reactor cores while simultaneously enhancing operational safety and ...

If nuclear construction has a reputation for moving slowly, Aalo Atomics is betting that the industry’s next leap looks less ...

ARC Clean Technology has raised Series B funding to accelerate commercialisation of its 100 MWe sodium‑cooled fast reactor, ...

Reactor radiation-shielding optimization methods are proposed by combining many-objective evolutionary algorithms with particle-transport calculation software that can optimize the reactor ...

Most efforts to build a fusion power plant focus on the tokamak design, which consists of a donut-shaped structure housing powerful magnets that confine high-temperature plasma within the reactor. The ...

Idaho National Laboratory launches full-scale molten chloride fuel production for the MCRE, marking a historic milestone in ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission finished its review in record time as the agency faces pressure from the White House to streamline operations. Nuclear developer NuScale Power on Thursday won ...

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 ...

All the different types of small modular reactors generate heat the same way: by splitting heavy atoms and capturing the heat ...

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 milestone marks the first production of uranium chloride fuel for a fast-spectrum molten chloride reactor in the United ...