Scientists in the US have developed a new glowing surrogate nuclear reactor that replaces ...

New simulations from Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory suggest that deliberately engineering plasma rotation inside tokamak fusion reactors could dramatically reduce the heat loads that destroy ...

Fusion energy promises a future of clean, nearly limitless power, but building reactors that can survive the extreme ...

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 ...

Nations are racing to deploy advanced reactors for cleaner, more secure nuclear energy, which ...

The insides of nuclear fusion reactors are violent and chaotic places. A new cold-spray coating can take the heat and also trap some rogue hydrogen particles at the same time, potentially making for ...

The PROSPECT-I detector in operation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s High Flux Isotope Reactor. Designed to be as close to the reactor core as possible, this unique instrument performed precise ...

Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have identified a new method to tame ...

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Explore the future of energy with Ontario small modular reactors, designed to meet rising demand efficiently and safely.

Valar Atomics’ Ward250 reactor has been transported via C-17 aircraft to Utah’s San Rafael Energy Lab in a first-of-its-kind ...

The project for which the Middletown, Conn., plant was first built has been abandoned; U.S. authorities no longer feel driven to solve the enormously difficult design problems of a nuclear-powered ...