Between 1963 and 1972, these efforts bore fruit with the creation of the Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA), a slow-fission solid core nuclear reactor designed for long-range ...
A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, joined by university students, recently traveled to The ...
NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. has assembled the first hardware for its ZEUS microreactor—a 1:2 scale block designed for ...
Kip Mock, president of Valar Atomics, said the total budget for building the first micro high-temperature gas-cooled reactor in the ... “We’re demonstrating the core physics at a very small ...
The majority of nuclear power plants around the world currently use pressurized water reactors (PWRs). In these, water is used as a coolant and is pumped under high pressure to the reactor core ... of ...
NASA's next moon rocket is coming together, piece by piece. The core stage of NASA's next Space Launch System (SLS) rocket recently completed integration with the vehicle's side boosters inside ...
Late Saturday night, technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida moved the core stage for NASA’s second Space Launch System rocket into position between the vehicle’s two solid-fueled boosters.
The 59-foot (18-meter), three-stage rocket dropped its core booster about 2.5 minutes into flight, with the second stage firing to propel the vehicle up to orbital speeds, followed by Electron's ...
Some European leaders are clamoring for a return of Russian gas to European markets. Three years ago, Europe suffered one of its biggest energy crises in modern history following Russia’s ...