Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has conducted the first safety test in more than 20 years on a high burnup fast reactor fuel at its Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) facility. The test is part of a ...

One class of these so-called Generation IV or Gen IV power plants is molten salt reactors, which replace enriched uranium or plutonium fuel rods and ... et al went for a graphite reactor instead.

They will play an important role in providing nuclear fuel for our eVinci microreactor ... “Urenco is committed to powering the nuclear reactors of today and tomorrow with enriched uranium ...

After five years of research, scientists at the US Idaho National Laboratory (INL) believe they have created the perfect recipe to fuel the world’s first critical fast-spectrum molten salt reactor.

Scientists at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have developed a breakthrough fuel for molten chloride fast reactors (MCFR), a reactor technology that nuclear technology firm Core Power envisions for ...

The role of redox and structure on grain growth in Mn-doped UO 2 Mn-doped UO 2 is a promising nuclear fuel, and is predicted to undergo favourable grain growth during service. This study uses ...

CEO Mike Laufer says that his reactors don't use fuel rods; they use fuel pebbles, about the size of golf balls – mostly graphite, with tiny kernels of uranium. And each pebble has as much power ...

The step is expected to give a strong support to future fusion reactors as tritium is a vital fuel for fusion power stations. The collaboration also aims to jointly conduct research and ...

President Donald Trump’s tariff threats could raise the price of uranium used to fuel US nuclear reactors, which could have ripple effects on a tenuous nuclear renaissance spurred by the growth ...

Reactor fuel, shutdown systems and other elements of its design will be similar or identical to those in existing Candus. But unlike Darlington’s four units, which are all housed in the same ...

Technology developer Last Energy announced plans to build 30 micronuclear reactors in Haskell County as demand from the state's data centers surge. The nuclear technology company said that it ...

Was the Chernobyl disaster preventable? If the RBMK reactor had been designed differently, the explosion that shook the world might never have happened. But what were its fatal design flaws ...