Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia’s state atomic energy corporation – Rosatom – has announced the beginning of pilot ...
Stellaria, a French startup born out of the CEA and Schneider Electric, has raised €23 million (approximately $26.88 million USD) to build a new kind of nuclear reactor, one that can actually get rid ...
The China National Nuclear Corporation's neutron reactor could generate up to 1.2GW and provide a more efficient, cleaner source of power China's state-owned nuclear power firm has unveiled the design ...
Russian scientists have developed a method to produce nitrogen-15, a key component for advanced nitride fuel in fast neutron ...
Orano has created two specific 'sharing groups' which bring together the main designers of innovative fast neutron reactors in France. These groups, it says, are open to all designers of these types ...
New nuclear fission technology is being developed but over 50 nuclear reactors involves over $200 billion of development. China is developing over $100 billion of new nuclear fission power. China can ...
France's Hexana has formed a strategic partnership with Belgian engineering firm Tractebel to support the development of its sodium-cooled fast neutron reactor energy platform. Meanwhile, Swedish and ...
Most new nuclear fission reactors being built today are of the light water reactor (LWR) type, which use water for neutron moderation into thermal neutrons as well as neutron capture. While ...
Westinghouse and Ansaldo Energia’s Switzerland-based nuclear arm, Ansaldo Nucleare, will cooperate in developing a nuclear power plant based on lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) technology. The two ...
(Updated—May 19, 2022): The Department of Energy (DOE) is poised to decide whether it will build the 300-MWth Versatile Test Reactor (VTR), a fast neutron national user facility that could provide the ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) identified the Idaho National Lab (INL) as its preferred location for the construction and operation of a new nuclear test reactor in a final environmental impact ...
The Pulsed Fast Reactor (PFR) is designed to study the interaction of neutrons with atomic nuclei. Using a neutron beam, one can investigate nuclear reactions, nuclear excitation, and structure, i.e., ...