These methods are how the nuclear industry safely manages the 10,000 metric tons of spent fuel waste that reactors produce as they churn out 10% of the world’s electricity every ...

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As U.S. electricity demand rises and technology companies seek to build more and larger data centers to drive artificial intelligence systems, the main question arising is how to generate all that ...

A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...

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TerraPower has secured a construction permit for its Natrium nuclear plant in Wyoming – the first approved advanced reactor in the US in nearly a decade ...

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory is building the technical case for 3D-printed parts inside U.S. nuclear reactors, combining ...

The first light-water reactor at the new Russian nuclear facility, Kursk II, has now ...