The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

To meet energy demands and reestablish the nation's energy dominance, U.S. companies are developing several types of advanced ...

2, 1942, in a squash court under the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. Nicknamed “Chicago Pile-1,” the world’s first nuclear reactor kicked off the Atomic Age and has a complicated ...

As interest in new generations of nuclear reactors is increasing ... the learning that can be gained by considering one type of material under reactor conditions can be crucial in making progress ...

Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has announced a significant breakthrough in the decommissioning of fast neutron ...

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But once all the necessary permits and certificates have been obtained, the really exciting phase can begin: A small nuclear reactor will be built on the PSI site in the canton of Aargau.

A consortium of electric power companies that envisaged Japan operating on a network of nuclear reactors using pluthermal generation technology is having to drastically scale back that ambitious goal.

Chemists report that radiation-induced chemical reactions may help mitigate the corrosion of metals in a new type of nuclear reactor cooled by molten salts. High temperatures and ionizing ...