Nuclear power plants have a bad rap due to the tragic Chernobyl incident and the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California, ...
TerraPower, a Bill Gates–backed nuclear power start-up, received the federal green light to start building a power plant in ...
China’s Institute of Modern Physics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is building what it calls the world’s first ...
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 ...
A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...
An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets in ...
The US NRC has authorised the construction permit for TerraPower’s Natrium sodium-cooled reactor project at Kemmerer in ...
TerraPower was approved Wednesday for a construction permit to build a first-of-its-kind nuclear power plant near Kemmerer, Wyoming. It’s the first ...
A study by BARC scientists has concluded that HALEU-Thorium fuel is unsuitable for India's nuclear reactors, requiring costly redesigns and reducing plutonium production.