From molten salt to TRISO fuel, here’s how technological advancements could upend an old power technology. Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive ...
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US firm making thorium-fueled nuclear reactors to file for NRC license under new regulations
US-based hybrid nuclear reactor company Ampera will file for a license for its microreactors ...
Liquid-fueled molten-salt reactors, another new type, could increase waste volume too. In these designs, fuel and coolant are ...
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Wi-Fi that can withstand a nuclear reactor
Six months in a nuclear reactor? This receiver chip can take it ...
Outside of those in the Department of Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics within the College of Engineering, few know that the University of Wisconsin is home to a one-megawatt TRIGA research ...
A global nuclear energy resurgence is underway, driven by the need for a stable, low-carbon energy mix and massive electricity demand projections spurred by the artificial intelligence boom. Deep ...
This April, in a speech given at the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the physicist Xu Hongjie announced a breakthrough. For over a decade, his team had been working on an ...
Countries are racing to build new reactors. But we've barely figured out how to clean up the old ones — and the bill is potentially staggering.
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