Kansai Electric Power will begin surveys for the construction of a new nuclear power reactor at its Mihama power station in ...

The nuclear energy industry is seeing a resurgence in global interest as governments, utilities, and tech giants seek to meet ...

The divertor is a technologically complex component of the ITER reactor being built in Southern France. Functioning as the reactor’s exhaust system, it is the only part of the tokamak designed to ...

On Friday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that it would be issuing a certification to a new nuclear reactor design, making it just the seventh that has been approved for use in ...

The push for new reactor designs isn’t coming just from startups. GE and Hitachi, for example, have teamed up to develop a 300-megawatt modular reactor. Nor is the advanced nuclear movement strictly a ...

“Kairos Power’s Janus column demonstrates an element of the company’s novel design for the Hermes bioshield – the thick ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified the design for what will be the United States' first small modular nuclear reactor. The rule that certifies the design was ...

Trump’s Executive Orders shift new nuclear reactor approvals from the NRC to the Pentagon and DoE. Growing electricity demand ...

Many in the industry fear a court win would hamper the nuclear sector and states, but plaintiffs say it would boost ...

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and artificial intelligence company Atomic Canyon signed a ...

In contrast, new “advanced” reactor designs use alternatives to water for cooling, like liquid metal or special gases. Natura’s design, like many others, uses molten salt.