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 ...

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.

A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...

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

Regulations have made it harder and more expensive to deploy nuclear power in the United States. But in January, the Nuclear ...

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 ...

A new bill in the Sunshine State’s legislature seeks to streamline the approval process for constructing nuclear reactors.

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 ...

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 ...

China is set to launch the world's first accelerator-driven nuclear reactor, a technology projected to safely meet global ...

This month, Next Hydrogen Solutions Inc., a Mississauga-based electrolyzer specialist, scored two contracts worth a combined $3.75 million. The assignments call ...