All U.S. nuclear reactors, which currently provide more than half of the nation's carbon-free power, are first- or second-generation light water reactors. This means they use water as both a coolant ...

The laboratory is leading the charge in developing the next generation of nuclear reactors, known as Gen-IV reactors. These reactors promise to be safer, more efficient and produce less waste than ...

Blasting work 45 metres below ground has begun, marking the start of the expansion of Sweden's existing SFR final repository ...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is advancing next-generation nuclear energy through state-of-the-art research in sodium-cooled fast reactors. Argonne’s METL facility and ...

This is the first time additive manufacturing has been used to create and qualify a component for use in a nuclear reactor ... producing other critical reactor parts,” said Dehoff.

AECL Nuclear Battery is predicted to survive all postulated accident scenarios without human intervention.

This is an important achievement that takes the reactor into its operational phase now, bringing us closer to generating clean and limitless energy using nuclear ... the straight part of the ...

This has led to the focus on Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors (SFR) in the Generation IV International Forum (GIF) and the International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles (INPRO) ...