Nuclear engineering is an interdisciplinary field that underpins the design, operation and maintenance of nuclear reactors and fuel cycles, integrating fundamental physics, advanced materials science ...

Rolls-Royce has ordered aseismic bearings pedestal demonstrator to incorporate it in its small modular reactor design to make ...

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

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 ...

NANO Nuclear and UIUC have signed a MOU to develop and deploy the KRONOS MMR as an on-campus research reactor.

WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday approved NuScale Power's (SMR.N), opens new tab design for 77 megawatt reactors, clearing a hurdle for the company as ...

The United States government has announced a new pilot program which aims to unlock private funding and provide fast track to commercial licensing of advanced nuclear reactors. The US Department of ...

Belgian engineering firm Tractebel announced it has signed a new mutual agreement with NRG-Pallas to extend their long-standing collaboration on the construction of the Pallas research reactor in ...

On Friday, concrete pouring began for the nuclear island of Unit 1 at the Xuwei Nuclear Heating and Power Plant in ...

Oklo and LANL have conducted first plutonium fast reactor tests at NCERC, validating surplus fuel for advanced reactors like ...

China’s Xuwei Nuclear Heating and Power Plant is the world’s first facility to couple nuclear energy with the petrochemical ...

NASA and the DOE partner to build a lunar nuclear reactor by 2030, providing the power needed for sustained space missions.