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First power-producing advanced nuclear reactor in U.S. gets permit to build in Oak Ridge
Kairos Power, the California-based company building advanced nuclear test reactors in Oak Ridge, has reached another milestone in obtaining a construction permit for its first electricity ...
NANO Nuclear Energy Assembles First ZEUS™ Advanced Portable Microreactor Hardware for Initial Testing
The assembled hardware consists of a 1:2 scale block, precisely engineered to be representative of a fuel element of the ZEUS ...
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Will Texas Become ‘the Epicenter of a National Nuclear Renaissance’?
“By passing this bill, Texas will become the epicenter of a national nuclear renaissance,” Harris said. “Texas will attract ...
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Micro nuclear reactors are being built that can deliver 5MW of power for up to 100 months, producing a staggering 1.2 petawatt-hours of energy
Its mission includes establishing four new experimental facilities and two large-scale reactor test beds by 2028, with plans to complete two advanced technology experiments by 2030. The eVinci ...
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Fusion for the future: Nuclear lab plays key role in testing a crucial technology
A cutting-edge project to test “fusion blanket” technologies is taking shape, with the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) ...
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Nuclear energy for the future
A National Scientific User Facility has been established at the Idaho National Laboratory's Advanced Test Reactor to help advance our understanding of complex behaviour driven by irradiation ...
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INL revives fast reactor fuel testing
The researchers performed transient tests on a high-burnup metallic fuel that was archived from historic irradiation testing ...
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INL scientists develop first-ever fuel for fast-spectrum molten salt reactor
After years of effort, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) scientists have created fuel for the world’s first fast-spectrum ...