President Macron and India's Narendra Modi met in Marseille to visit the ITER project, the world's biggest nuclear reactor, ...

molten salt reactors are a very popular concept. The fast reactor technologies, both sodium and lead-cooled, the high-temperature reactors - all these technologies are really being explored around the ...

The new era of nuclear power generation greater than the force of the Sun has arrived and is ready for deployment. For the ...

While long considered appropriate only as baseload generation, the Dalton Nuclear Institute argues that flexible nuclear ...

Unlike traditional large-scale reactors, SMRs can be manufactured in a factory setting and transported to the site where they ...

X-energy, controlled by billionaire Kam Ghaffarian, rakes in another $200 million to become the best-funded startup ...

One of these details is that such a reactor must operate at very high temperatures and strong vibrations and survive. We're talking 2,326 °C (4,220 °F), with highly reactive superheated hydrogen ...

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

Very high temperatures of over 100 million degrees Celsius are required to overcome the repulsion of the nuclei. The conditions are generated in a ring-shaped reactor chamber, the tokamak ...

But the differences are more than just mechanical—even the very shape of the plasma can have ... fusion reactions—pumping out more power than the reactor originally invests. However, at high ...

This idea could be a major change for the chemical industry, which today relies on huge facilities running reactions at extremely high temperatures ... along in a small reactor in the lab.

Despite its heavy reliance on coal-fired generation, South Africa has an opportunity to accelerate its push towards net zero ...