In today’s power market, where developers give greater weight to first cost and equipment reliability than to life cycle costs, new nuclear power plants based on the expensive light-water reactor ...

Westinghouse was awarded a grant from the United Kingdom’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to support the development of advanced nuclear fuel. The nuclear power giant is ...

The Xe-100 is a 200MWt Advanced Pebble Bed Reactor that will be deployed in Washington State in the 2028 timeframe with the support of the US DOE Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program. The Xe-100 has ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems has concluded the conceptual design phase for a new helium gas-cooled fast reactor, advancing the project toward preliminary design and technology maturation.

BWX Technologies (BWXT) on Nov. 23 said it has demonstrated the ability to additively manufacture nickel-based super alloys and refractory-metal-based alloys for use in nuclear components. The company ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Idaho National Laboratory’s Advanced Test Reactor workers have completed an 11-month outage for a core overhaul that occurs about every 10 years to maintain peak ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave an advanced reactor design its stamp of approval, but there is still a long road ahead before next-generation nuclear technologies get off the ground. The ...

Many companies working on next-generation nuclear reactors lack the infrastructure, lab facilities and computer models needed to collect the data required to prove to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory ...

A new kind of methane reactor is promising something that has long sounded too good to be true: turning fossil gas into clean hydrogen while locking the carbon away in valuable nanotubes instead of ...