Idaho National Lab partners with Clean Core to test a new thorium-based nuclear fuel that may improve safety, cut waste, and ...

Reactor internals have been installed at unit 4 of China’s Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant, where two CAP1000 reactors are under ...

Terrani and his colleagues are working on it. The Oak Ridge team recently finalized the preliminary design for the 3D-printed core at the heart of its Transformational Challenge Reactor, or TCR.

Uranium (U) is the poster child for nuclear fission reactors—the most common type of nuclear reactor we have. Most fission reactors are fueled by the isotope uranium-235 (it even made its way ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory are refining their design of a 3D-printed nuclear reactor core, scaling up the additive manufacturing process necessary to build it, and developing methods to confirm the ...

Feb. 19, 2010 — -- The head of the lead lobbying group for the nuclear power industry today downplayed regulators' safety concerns about the designs of two nuclear reactors expected to be the ...

A first-of-its-kind nuclear reactor that will use a 3D-printed core, advanced materials, and integrated sensors and controls is on track for completion by 2023. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, work ...

Most nuclear reactors today operate well below 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, ... “The power ball goes down through the core, comes out the bottom, and then goes back to the top,” Pappano says.

The liberty ship is a Gaseous Core Nuclear Reactor design, of the Nuclear Lightbulb subvariant. This design is from nuclearspace.com. It has an ISP of 3,060 and leverages existing technology to ...

LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK TWP. -- "Degradation" to about 2 percent of the bolts that secure a metal liner inside the core of the Salem 1 nuclear reactor has caused its operator to extend the plant's ...