The RBMK reactor, infamous for its role in the Chernobyl disaster, was a Soviet nuclear reactor design that carried inherent ...

(Click here for a larger diagram, also on page 3 ... The scientists there have come up with a preliminary design for a reactor that requires only a small amount of enriched fuel–that is ...

Dr. Leslie Dewan The idea is that such a reactor could extract ... they hear about a nuclear reactor design going open source. If you were hoping for circuit diagrams or some source code, you ...

Aircraft Reactor Experiment. General diagram. (Source ... where the original solid fuel design was changed into a molten salt/fuel mixture due to concerns over reaction stability at high ...

THIS could be the start of something big. In the next few weeks, the UK government is expected to sign a deal to start building the country’s first new nuclear reactors for 25 years. The reactor ...

That could be a big deal for nuclear’s persistent financial problems, while also enabling some design features that further improve safety. On Friday, the first small modular reactor received a ...

A hybrid of two popular nuclear fusion reactor designs could lead to more efficient power plants. Magnetic confinement fusion reactors use magnetic fields to squeeze a cloud of charged ions ...

NASA and the Department of Energy have selected BWX Technologies, General Atomics and Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies to further develop their reactor design concepts for a nuclear thermal ...

NuScale Power Corp., the only company with US approval for a small nuclear reactor, has now won regulatory support for a second design that may go into service by the end of the decade. The US ...