Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor.
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US swaps nuclear rods for high-precision control drums in next-gen reactor design
Engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have reached a critical milestone in the ...
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NOVA Core becomes the first private company in the US to reach “zero power criticality” in their nuclear power plant
Is this the dawn of a new era of nuclear energy in America?
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Ion beams simulate decades of reactor damage 1,000x faster at 1/1000th the cost
Ion beams can now qualify nuclear reactor materials up to 1,000 times faster than ...
A persistent asymmetry in fusion exhaust has challenged researchers for years. New simulations show that plasma core rotation, working together with cross-field drifts, determines where particles land ...
LYNCHBURG, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced today that work has commenced to fabricate the reactor core for the Pele microreactor at its BWXT Innovation Campus in ...
VERNON — The last remaining large structure at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant site is about to come down. The reactor building, a distinctive green with a white top and five stories tall, has been ...
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