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Chris Bryan will give a talk to Friends of ORNL on Tuesday, Aug. 12, on 60 years of scientific highlights in the reactor’s history, plans for upgrades ...
In this week's Current Climate newsletter, correcting presidential misinformation on water; the Moon is going nuclear; Ford ...
Currently, there are no SMRs in operation; however, NuScale Power and Oklo are two companies at the forefront of developing ...
The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power.
Michelle L.D. Hanlon, University of Mississippi The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, ...
The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, the new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has completed a study of new accident tolerant fuels being developed by three companies for new commercial nuclear power reactors.
Kansai Electric Power will begin surveys for the construction of a new nuclear power reactor at its Mihama power station in Fukui prefecture, western Japan, to replace the existing facility, the ...
But NASA’s space nuclear propulsion office continues to explore the concept—most notably, a joint project with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that aims to test a nuclear-powered ...
ABILENE, Texas — Bolstered by $3.2 million from a former Midland oilman, this West Texas city of 130,000 people is helping the Lone Star State lead a national nuclear energy resurgence. Doug ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a novel pilot program that will allow private developers to build and operate full-scale advanced nuclear test reactors outside of the national ...
Nonproliferation experts believe Iraq’s nuclear program went underground after Israel destroyed its reactor just outside Baghdad.