DOE awards 23 fast-track nuclear R&D projects to boost advanced reactors and U.S. energy leadership under Executive Order ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced it is moving forward to advance new uses of factory-built microreactors for ...

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung have discovered ...

A machine learning approach leverages nuclear microreactor symmetry to reduce training time when modeling power output ...

In a ‘fast’ breeder reactor, the neutrons aren’t slowed, allowing them to trigger specific fission reactions. The PFBR is designed to produce more Pu-239 than it consumes.

The BREST-OD-300 is a lead-cooled fast neutron reactor – and the beginning of pilot operations is a key milestone in the development of the Generation IV nuclear power system.

Fast neutron reactors, such as the BN-1200, are designed to use a wider variety of fuels, including secondary products from the nuclear fuel cycle like plutonium and transuranic elements.

The PHWR reactor uses so-called ‘heavy water’ (deuterium), which unlike its lighter sibling does not moderate neutrons, thus allowing for a PHWR to also work with fast neutrons.

The pouring of concrete for the foundation slab was completed in August 2021. The first part of the reactor vessel, the lower tier of the containment, has also been loaded into the reactor shaft. The ...

The life extension will mean the unit can generate an extra 60 billion kWh of electricity. The sodium-cooled BN-series fast reactors are part of Rosatom's Proryv, or 'Breakthrough', project to develop ...