In the latest event, India has announced a significant milestone in nuclear technology. Its Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is expected to be operational by the end of 2025.

India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) will allow the country's flagship 500-MWe/1,250-MWth prototype fast-breeder reactor (PFBR) in Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, to approach criticality. The ...

Argonne has been studying the fast reactor technology since it developed two fast reactors in 1948, Chang said. In 1949, a testing station was built in Idaho and the reactors were renamed ...

Vadim Lemekhov, chief designer of the BREST-OD-300 reactor unit and the project team, said: "We have started installation of the world’s first lead-cooled fast reactor, the fourth generation reactor ...

The DOE and JAEA have performed similar tests on high-burnup fast reactor fuel before, but these came to an end in 1994 when the EBR-II - a 62.5 MWth, 20 MWe liquid-sodium cooled, fast breeder reactor ...

Bill Gates’ nuclear innovation firm TerraPower has broken ground on the non-nuclear portion of Kemmerer Unit 1, a 345-MW Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) power plant. The groundbreaking ...

The Trump administration said the orders' goal is to quadruple nuclear power production in the next 25 years and reduce the reactor licensing timeline to 18 months, a process that typically takes ...

An alternate type of reactor known as a thermal neutron reactor uses slow thermal neutrons. “Fast reactors are lousy at making economical electricity, but they’re terrific for producing super ...

The Natrium technology features a 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor with a molten salt-based energy storage system.The storage technology can boost the system’s output to 500 MWe for more than ...

Amazon says it is also investing in X-energy, a private nuclear-reactor-and-fuel-design engineering company.This investment will include the manufacturing capabilities to produce SMR equipment ...