As nuclear power companies gear up to revive old reactors and build a generation of new ones to meet burgeoning power demands ...
A 72-foot robotic arm is being deployed to sample nuclear fuel debris at the Fukushima power plant and plan its removal.
US-based General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS), under contract with the US Department of Energy (DOE) has ...
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced it has completed preliminary development of four individual ...
Built in the 1940s, Windscale was fuelled by the paranoia that gripped the US and Russia amid the Cold War as a major step in ...
As Microsoft strikes a deal to restart a reactor at Three Mile Island to power AI, nuclear specialists weigh in on the ...
Under contract with the DOE, GA-EMS is advancing its SiGA SiC composite cladding technology to improve nuclear fuel ...
The advanced design to be tested in Oak Ridge incorporates two Oak Ridge National Laboratory innovations: TRISO nuclear fuel and a fluoride salt coolant to carry away the fuel’s heat and potentially ...
the isotope used in nuclear reactors’ fuel rods. Russia has been a major international supplier of these services, even after the country’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, because US and European ...
When the fuel is depleted, the entire reactor is shut down ... there are shutdown rods inserted during transport to halt the nuclear reaction entirely. A rotating drum must also be moved aside ...