The US NRC has authorised the construction permit for TerraPower’s Natrium sodium-cooled reactor project at Kemmerer in ...
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 ...
A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...
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 ...
TerraPower, a start-up founded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, is set to build a new kind of nuclear power plant in Wyoming ...
For the past half century, successive Presidential administrations and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have thwarted the ...
The NRC on March 4 authorized a construction permit for TerraPower's Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1—the first commercial ...
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US swaps nuclear rods for high-precision control drums in next-gen reactor design
Engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have reached a critical milestone in the ...
Reactor radiation-shielding optimization methods are proposed by combining many-objective evolutionary algorithms with particle-transport calculation software that can optimize the reactor ...
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Ion beams simulate decades of reactor damage 1,000x faster at 1/1000th the cost
Ion beams can now qualify nuclear reactor materials up to 1,000 times faster than ...
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 ...
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