Chinese engineers identify a design flaw in NASA's lunar nuclear reactor, suggesting improvements that could boost efficiency ...

Nuclear energy’s potential can be viewed as two stories: nuclear for ships and nuclear for future fuels. Both offer a wealth ...

UK-based Core Power has announced that it plans to mass produce a fleet of floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs) using advanced reactor design and modular shipbuilding to be anchored off the US ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

The researchers performed transient tests on a high-burnup metallic fuel that was archived from historic irradiation testing ...

Finland's Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology is to build two new test facilities at its nuclear engineering ...

Small, transportable and mass-produced “microreactors” are seen as part of the future of nuclear power. And it's underway in ...

Radiation-resistant nanomaterials enhance durability in nuclear systems by mitigating damage, improving structural integrity, ...

The late 1950s were such an optimistic time in America. World War II had been over for less than a decade, the economy boomed thanks to pent-up demand after years of privation, and everyone was ...

China could power ahead of the US in the moon race thanks to a few structural differences in its lunar base reactor, engineers say Chinese nuclear engineers have discovered a critical inefficiency ...