The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant's third reactor in western Russia resumed full capacity after a temporary reduction due to a drone strike. The attack, which hit an auxiliary transformer, necessitated a ...

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Utah signed a new memorandum of understanding with TerraPower, a nuclear energy company founded by Bill Gates, to explore a potential site for a reactor and an energy storage plant in the state. The ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) in the United States has taken a significant step to strengthen the efforts for advanced nuclear reactor development. The DOE has made conditional commitments to provide ...

China's first experimental fast breeder seen in construction in 2004, with development managed by the China Institute of Atomic Energy. © Petr Pavlicek/IAEA China ...

MIT researchers have developed a technique that allows scientists to watch, in real time, how materials corrode and crack inside a nuclear reactor environment. The method, powered by high-intensity ...

MIT researchers have developed a technique that enables real-time, 3D monitoring of corrosion, cracking, and other material failure processes inside a nuclear reactor environment. This could allow ...

Aug 25 (Reuters) - The Utah Office of Energy Development, TerraPower and land development firm Flagship Companies signed an agreement on Monday to explore sites for a nuclear reactor project and an ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The state of Utah is inching closer in its pursuit of nuclear energy after officials announced Monday the search for a possible site of a Natrium reactor and potential energy storage.

Most U.S. nuclear power plants are fueled by uranium oxide (urania), which has a sufficiently high fissile density, exhibited good stability, and effectively retained fission products. Urania is also ...