Nuclear power plants generate electricity using heat from a process called nuclear fission. This happens when atoms of uranium-235 split after being hit by a neutron. The split releases heat and more ...

In a dark corner of a mechatronics lab at the Idaho National Laboratory, researcher Ben Baker types commands on a laptop to power up the reactor. A few feet away, a surrogate nuclear reactor the size ...

Scientists in the US have developed a new glowing surrogate nuclear reactor that replaces dangerous neutron-driven reactions with thousands of LEDs in order to simulate the complex physics of a ...

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 ...

For the first time in decades, thorium-based nuclear fuel is headed for fabrication and reactor testing on U.S. soil. Clean ...

Preliminary testing has taken place of an ultrasound system which is designed to provide an additional picture of the BN-800 fast neutron reactor core at Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant. Beloyarsk unit ...

Editor’s note: On Oct. 16, 2024, about 100 Tri-Cities area leaders and people who worked to preserve Hanford’s historic B Reactor as part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park gathered at ...

Core disruptive accidents (CDAs) in sodium-cooled fast reactors represent a severe class of events in which the integrity of the reactor core is rapidly compromised, leading to the dispersal of molten ...