Antares Nuclear's Mark-0 microreactor achieves criticality at Idaho National Laboratory, the first advanced reactor to do so ...

Nuclear energy in the West took another step forward as the first privately developed, non-light-water reactor to go critical ...

Valar Atomics has achieved self-sustaining criticality and completed zero-power testing at Ward 250, its Gen IV tri-structural isotropic (TRISO)-fueled modular high-temperature gas reactor (HTGR), at ...

The liquid-fueled molten salt reactors such as the MSRE and the TMSR-LF have distinguishing dynamic features compared with solid-fueled reactors, such that conventional system analysis codes are not ...

Antares today announced that its Mark-0 microreactor achieved initial criticality at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) under U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) authorization — making Antares the first ...

The scientific community has a plan for achieving fusion power. It involves getting a better understanding of how to control ...

Neutron transport and reactor physics analysis form the theoretical and computational foundation for the design, operation and safety assessment of nuclear reactors. At its core lies the neutron ...

Billions of dollars in venture capital and state investments have recently been poured into efforts to finally make nuclear fusion a viable energy source—big bets that a futuristic leap is coming soon ...

Five new papers validate key parts of Commonwealth Fusion System’s ARC reactor ...

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical. Using a new process, a team has developed a new way of processing fuel efficiently ...

Neutrinos, elusive fundamental particles, can act as a window into the center of a nuclear reactor, the interior of the Earth, or some of the most dynamic objects in the universe. Their tendency to ...