Burnable absorbers are key components in modern nuclear reactor design, serving to mitigate the excess reactivity inherent in fresh reactor cores while simultaneously enhancing operational safety and ...

The United States has taken a step toward a 21st-century renaissance in civilian nuclear power as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given the go-ahead for TerraPower's Natrium Gen IV reactor ...

The first light-water reactor at the new Russian nuclear facility, Kursk II, has now ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has officially greenlit a critical safety blueprint for ...

The NRC on March 4 authorized a construction permit for TerraPower's Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1—the first commercial ...

China is building a megawatt-scale accelerator-driven nuclear reactor prototype in Huizhou that is expected to start operating in 2027.

Engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have reached a critical milestone in the ...

Conceptual design milestone achieved for advanced, proprietary HALEU transport package supporting next-generation nuclear ...

Reactor radiation-shielding optimization methods are proposed by combining many-objective evolutionary algorithms with particle-transport calculation software that can optimize the reactor ...

This regulation didn't make anyone safer but it did make it harder to build nuclear energy projects in the United States.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) joined today with Idaho National Laboratory, the U.S. Army and the Department of War Strategic Capabilities Office to announce ...