Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor.
A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...
Engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have reached a critical milestone in the ...
A persistent asymmetry in fusion exhaust has challenged researchers for years. New simulations show that plasma core rotation, working together with cross-field drifts, determines where particles land ...
Fusion energy promises clean power by mimicking stars. Scientists are focusing on the reactor wall's edge, where plasma meets ...
Ion beams can now qualify nuclear reactor materials up to 1,000 times faster than ...
The reactor pressure vessel has been hoisted into place at unit 6 of the Lufeng nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province. It is the second of two HPR1000 (Hualong One) units under ...
VERNON — The last remaining large structure at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant site is about to come down. The reactor building, a distinctive green with a white top and five stories tall, has been ...