Neutrinos are extremely elusive elementary particles. Day and night, 60 billion of them stream from the sun through every ...

A compact 3 kg (6.6 lbs) detector has allowed scientists to detect elusive antineutrinos from a nuclear reactor.

In the spring of 2020, a team of engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) embarked on a groundbreaking project to ...

The MARVEL microreactor project at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), US, has successfully concluded its three-month coolant system testing campaign. In spring 2020, INL engineers, led by Carlo Parisi, ...

Southern Company and INL’s molten salt test loop marks a major step toward safer, efficient Gen IV nuclear reactors with real-time corrosion monitoring.

Nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses heat from nuclear reactions as fuel, could be used one day in human spaceflight, possibly even for missions to Mars. Its development, however, poses a challen… ...

While these reactors represent one important model for nuclear energy deployment, others are also emerging and deserving of consideration. Several companies and research teams are now pioneering ...

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May 28, 2007 5 min read A version of this story appeared in Volume 85, Issue 22 ...