Fireplaces are cozy until it’s time to shovel out the ashes. Nuclear power has the same problem: abundant, reliable energy ...

At the intersection of mathematics and nature, scientists have found intriguing and often beautiful designs. Pinecone scales ...

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 ...

Scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have achieved a historic breakthrough in nuclear energy by launching ...

Small Modular Reactors are pivoting the nuclear industry from custom-built energy cathedrals to factory-built energy appliances, driven by the need for 24/7 firm power to feed AI data centers and ...

This module consists of the 4 lectures and provides the overview on Generation IV reactors and SMRs goals and requirements; basic knowledge on nuclear fuel for Advanced Reactors, including general ...

When one of the largest modern earthquakes struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the nuclear reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi automatically shut down, as designed. The emergency systems, which would have ...

Standard Nuclear has received the HALEU needed to produce the first full TRISO fuel core for Radiant’s Kaleidos microreactor.

Until recently, molten salt technology was neither taught nor well known in the field of nuclear engineering. Tools used to model nuclear reactor physics have not considered flowing fuel. We need a ...

The liquid-fueled molten salt reactors such as the MSRE and the TMSR-LF have distinguishing dynamic features compared with solid-fueled reactors, such that conventional system analysis codes are not ...