China’s Institute of Modern Physics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is building what it calls the world’s first ...
Engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have reached a critical milestone in the ...
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has authorised the staff to issue TerraPower’s subsidiary, US SFR Owner (USO), a ...
X-energy, a Maryland-based nuclear technology firm, is betting that a reactor fueled by tiny, heat-resistant particles can eliminate the risk of a core meltdown entirely. That claim, if validated at ...
The United States has taken a step toward a 21st-century renaissance in civilian nuclear power as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given the go-ahead for TerraPower's Natrium Gen IV reactor ...
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hadron Energy, Inc. (“Hadron”), an advanced nuclear technology company, today revealed new details about the engineering and safety innovations powering its flagship 10 ...
A persistent asymmetry in fusion exhaust has challenged researchers for years. New simulations show that plasma core rotation, working together with cross-field drifts, determines where particles land ...
From molten salt to TRISO fuel, here’s how technological advancements could upend an old power technology. Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive ...
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 ...