Under its revised energy plan, the Ministry of Industry now prioritizes PSCs on Section 0 of its plan wherein Japan aims to develop PSC sections generating 20 gigawatts of electricity equivalent to 20 ...

Therefore, in this work, we considered a 1D mathematical model of the CL-SMR process in a PBR with NiO as a catalyst at low pressure ... in consideration of work by Abbas et al. (2017): a) The reactor ...

Those reactors used uranium fuel rods with an exterior that can melt and expose the radioactive element underneath. The ‘pebble bed’ reactor, as it’s known in the industry, fills uranium ...

At 9:35 a.m. on Sept. 12, the No.1 reactor of Shidaowan nuclear power plant in east China’s Shandong province, the world’s first industrial-scale demonstration plant of the high-temperature gas-cooled ...

One of the idle nuclear reactors at a power plant in Japan's Niigata Prefecture is set to face a prolonged delay in its restart, as the operator is likely to fail to complete the required ...

Proxima Fusion, a venture-capital-backed company working on making nuclear fusion a reality, has open-sourced its reactor design in a scientific journal this week. Although a highly technical ...

An innovative nuclear reactor technology is being deployed at Abilene Christian University in Texas to address both energy and water supply issues. A liquid-fueled molten salt reactor (MSR) developed ...

Superconducting magnets inside a fusion reactor will experience conditions that aren’t seen anywhere on Earth. Materials scientists Susie Speller and Chris Grovenor are trying to predict how long ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed to sharply reduce its hourly service fees—by more than 50%—for advanced nuclear reactor applicants and pre-applicants in a move designed to ...