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, called a ...

A new multi-million dollar research effort aims to solve a central challenge for the next wave of nuclear energy: the efficient and safe management of extreme operational heat. NANO Nuclear, a company ...

Aggies have big plans for small reactors at nation's largest nuclear program. The Texas A&M campus at College Station could ...

Imagine a future where energy is not only abundant but also clean, reliable, and adaptable to the ever-changing demands of modern life. It’s a vision that feels both urgent and out of reach as we ...

The next-generation collaboration will leverage advanced laser enrichment technology to build a scalable U.S. nuclear fuel supply for advanced reactors With more than a dozen advanced reactor designs ...

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have reignited efforts to develop a small nuclear reactor for deployment on the ...

What if the next big thing in nuclear energy was a dusty old idea from the Cold War era? Once considered to power nuclear bombers, molten salt reactors (MSRs) are in the spotlight, promising safer, ...

LWRs dominate the global nuclear reactor market and officials acknowledge that without embedding Indian firms in international supply chains linked to this technology, breaking into the export market ...

Reactor radiation-shielding optimization methods are proposed by combining many-objective evolutionary algorithms with particle-transport calculation software that can optimize the reactor ...

Current chemical propulsion systems necessitate prolonged transit times for crewed Mars missions, driving the exploration of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) as a more efficient alternative to ...