Presented by Dr. Kathryn D. Huff, assistant secretary for nuclear energy in the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy Watch Video The Understanding Tomorrow’s Nuclear Energy lecture series ...

World leaders across the political spectrum are recognizing that adding reliable, scalable, carbon-free nuclear energy generation is crucial to addressing climate and energy security needs. As demand ...

In the traditional two-step method, the homogenization group constants of the fuel assembly are calculated using the assumption of reflective boundary conditions. In the hybrid two-step method used in ...

Neutrinos are extremely elusive elementary particles. Day and night, 60 billion of them stream from the sun through every square centimeter of Earth every second, which is transparent to them. After ...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have definitively answered a long-standing question: the tiny, natural pores inside graphite blocks do not affect the material’s performance as a ...

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