The United States has taken a step toward a 21st-century renaissance in civilian nuclear power as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given the go-ahead for TerraPower's Natrium Gen IV reactor ...

Graphite dust is generated as a by-product of normal operations in high temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs), predominantly arising from mechanical wear of graphite-based components. Typically ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Graphite is a key structural component in some of the world’s oldest nuclear reactors and many of the next-generation designs being built today. But it also condenses and swells in ...

Moltex Energy Limited subsidiary MoltexFLEX has received a research grant to work with researchers at the University of Manchester to investigate how its FLEX reactor's molten coolant salt interacts ...

Corrosion by liquid sodium appears to be complex and affects a variety of materials in different ways. I think I've found a good overview, but I've only skimmed it so far. See this collection of ...

A French company is taking a key step in the development of its sodium-cooled, high-temperature small modular reactor (SMR). For this, Blue Capsule has started the construction of a new full-sized ...

From left, Yuxuan Zhang, James Keiser, Jisue Moon, Cristian Contescu, Erik Stringfellow (back) and Nidia Gallego, with Dino Sulejmanovic (not shown), first visualized molten salt distribution in ...

ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--X-energy Reactor Company, LLC (“X-energy” or “the Company”) today announced a Definitive Supply Agreement with Toyo Tanso USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Toyo Tanso Co., ...