Keywords: Earthquake engineering, high temperature gas reactor, horizontal HTGR, reactor core, graphite block assembly, shake-table experiments, numerical simulations, analytical models Abstract: The ...

Nuclear power plants are exposed to high-energy radiation, which degrades materials over time. Particles and rays interact with critical components, particularly in the reactor core, leading to ...

Matthew Weathered’s THETA experiment offers high fidelity data for nuclear reactor computer code development within one of METL’s 71-cm diameter test vessels at Argonne. All U.S. nuclear reactors, ...

The nuclear technology company is holding a groundbreaking ceremony at Idaho National Laboratory for the Aurora-INL sodium-cooled fast reactor. (Image: @CongMikeSimpson/X) Oklo's Aurora powerhouse is ...

Three Mile Island brings back memories of the horrors of a nuclear accident. The event occurred near Harrisburg (Pa.), in March of 1979. The Unit 2 reactor core partially melted down when equipment ...

Sometimes an idea is so elegant that it really deserves to work. One such is a proposal put forward by the boss of Deep Fission, an aspiring nuclear-power firm in Berkeley, California. Elizabeth ...

The familiar towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor will come down in the next several years as the plant is decommissioned. TMI Unit 2 is the site of the worst commercial nuclear accident in ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a construction permit to Abilene Christian University (ACU) to build the Natura MSR-1, marking the first U.S. university research reactor approved in ...

The purpose of the event is to review the status and operational experience of the International Miniature Neutron Source Reactor Training Facility, discuss lessons learned, and demonstrate the ...

Theoretically, there's no better, more practical source of reliable, carbon-free energy than the current generation of nuclear reactors. In practice, the theory holds water, but there are still a few ...

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 ...