Unlike traditional large-scale reactors, SMRs can be manufactured in a factory setting and transported to the site where they ...

even the same fuel assemblies (which hold the fuel in place), and the same methods to control the power (control rods and boron in the coolant fluid). The Shippingport reactor was the first full-scale ...

(via Kyle Hill) Since the 1960s, we’ve known that light water nuclear reactors weren’t the only way to generate ... molten salt made from an element even more abundant than uranium: thorium. Noted ...

India and France on Wednesday expressed an intent to jointly develop modern nuclear reactors, emphasising that nuclear power was crucial for energy security and transition to a low-carbon economy.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech, has announced a ₹20,000-crore Nuclear Energy Mission for R&D into small reactors and ... fuels that may have thorium.

Co-extrusion for next-gen nuclear fuel. Lightbridge Fuel is a proprietary next-generation nuclear fuel technology for ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority is leading a team of nuclear companies and utilities applying for an $800 million federal grant to help finance small modular nuclear reactors at its Clinch River ...

Texas A&M University is offering up land to nuclear reactor companies. Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp announced last week that he has offered land near the university's RELLIS campus in Bryan ...

Quantum Kinetics' Arc Reactor™ utilizes a unique micro-cyclotron approach, Particle Oscillations as an Energy Generator™ to stimulate Safe Nuclear ... In addition to thorium, lead, and ...

An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 22, 2024 shows construction on the second phase of the Zhangzhou nuclear power ... including reactors that use thorium instead of uranium as a fuel.

Ukrainian lawmakers approved a bill to complete two additional reactors at the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant in the country’s west, paving the way for their purchase from Bulgaria to be ...