Experts can still only guess at what caused the mysterious damage to the support foundation of the No. 1 reactor at the ...

Russian scientists have developed a method to produce nitrogen-15, a key component for advanced nitride fuel in fast neutron ...

Core disruptive accidents (CDAs) in sodium-cooled fast reactors represent a severe class of events in which the integrity of the reactor core is rapidly compromised, leading to the dispersal of molten ...

LYNCHBURG, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced today that work has commenced to fabricate the reactor core for the Pele microreactor at its BWXT Innovation Campus in ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, high temperature gas reactor, horizontal HTGR, reactor core, graphite block assembly, shake-table experiments, numerical simulations, analytical models Abstract: The ...

Handle with care Fuel rods being loaded into a reactor core at the Chooz B1 nuclear power station. Several other French reactors were shut down in late 2016 due to material defects in key components. ...

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 ...

Terrestrial Energy and NRG-Pallas are starting the final phase of the graphite irradiation testing programme for Terrestrial's molten salt reactor at the High Flux Reactor in Petten, the Netherlands.