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 ...

This regulation didn't make anyone safer but it did make it harder to build nuclear energy projects in the United States.

China is no longer just experimenting with advanced nuclear designs, it is standardizing them. The country’s Hualong One reactor, a Generation III pressurized water design, has moved from one-off ...

China is building a megawatt-scale accelerator-driven nuclear reactor prototype in Huizhou that is expected to start operating in 2027.

The United States has taken a step toward a 21st-century renaissance in civilian nuclear power as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given the go-ahead for TerraPower's Natrium Gen IV reactor ...

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

An artist’s rendering shows the AP300 small modular reactor design that Westinghouse Electric Co. announced in 2023. As the nation responds to soaring demands for power and sharp spikes in electricity ...

The NRC on March 4 authorized a construction permit for TerraPower's Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1—the first commercial ...

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 ...

TerraPower, a start-up founded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, is set to build a new kind of nuclear power plant in Wyoming ...