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 ...

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 ...

Plasma physicists said they have achieved a nuclear fusion reactor temperature of more than 135 million degrees Fahrenheit at the Google-funded Norman reactor in California. This is many times ...

A demonstration accident-resistant nuclear fuel assembly has been loaded into the core of unit 6 of the Hanul nuclear power plant, marking the first time in Korea that such a fuel assembly has been ...

NANO Nuclear Energy Inc has assembled the first reactor core hardware of its ZEUS solid core battery reactor for initial non-nuclear testing. The fuel element being prepared for testing (Image: NANO ...

The U-235 that Core Power is planning to use in its reactors is slightly more powerful at 200 MeV—or 200 million electron volts—which releases 1.8 million more times the energy of the same ...

Phoebus 2A, the most powerful space nuclear reactor ever made, was fired up at Nevada Test Site on June 26, 1968. The test lasted 750 seconds and confirmed it could carry first humans to Mars.

Emphasis is placed on neutron interactions in various nuclear core and shield configurations along with the ... fission product poisoning, and some energy removal considerations are treated. General ...