Nuclear power is leveling ... started to be interest on the industry side, with people thinking this might be a viable technology for smaller reactors,” Oak Ridge lab physicist Ted Besmann ...

A novel modular steel-concrete composite, which can significantly reduce the construction costs of nuclear reactors, has successfully passed a key test. The Diaphragm Plate Steel Composite (DPSC), ...

Advanced reactors, called small modular reactors and microreactors, produce a fraction of the energy produced by the conventional nuclear reactors built around the world for the last 50 years.