A memorandum of understanding and a master services agreement signed by Westinghouse Electric Company and McMaster University ...

The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

Guidance provided here also covers best practice for different reload strategies and how to optimize reactor reload design and core management during the lifetime of a NPP. The publication reflects ...

The lack of an in-core fluid in our ZEUS design not only simplifies greatly the design but also enables rapid prototyping and non-nuclear testing, NANO Nuclear Senior Director and Head of Reactor ...

A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, joined by university students, recently traveled to The Ohio State University Research Reactor to conduct a novel experiment on ...

Terrestrial Energy’s reactor core is designed to be entirely replaced every seven years, in part to head off some of the problems earlier molten salt reactors experienced like corrosion.

the reactor was a 50,000-watt aqueous-homogenous design using a solution of uranyl sulfate in distilled water as its fuel. The core is tiny, about a foot in diameter, and assembled by hand right ...

developing core design methods and evaluating economic models. The IAEA fosters an international exchange of information on the advances in reactor technology, including for MSRs. It provides a forum ...

Chinese nuclear engineers have discovered a critical inefficiency issue in Nasa’s lunar nuclear reactor design – but, they claim, minor structural adjustments could slash fuel consumption by ...

The design selected was a tank type sodium-cooled ... While many companies will be involved in the development and operation of the reactor, the core company oversees placing orders with major ...