Burnable absorbers are key components in modern nuclear reactor design, serving to mitigate the excess reactivity inherent in fresh reactor cores while simultaneously enhancing operational ...
Engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have reached a critical milestone in the ...
The nuclear renaissance makes for an exciting investing opportunity. Two oft-discussed reactor developers are Westinghouse ...
Reactor radiation-shielding optimization methods are proposed by combining many-objective evolutionary algorithms with particle-transport calculation software that can optimize the reactor primary ...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed ULIMES liquid metal fuel to boost efficiency and safety in light water reactors.
Ion beams can now qualify nuclear reactor materials up to 1,000 times faster than ...
Theoretically, there's no better, more practical source of reliable, carbon-free energy than the current generation of nuclear reactors. In practice, the theory holds water, but there are still a ...