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NOVA Core becomes the first private company in the US to reach “zero power criticality” in their nuclear power plant

Is this the dawn of a new era of nuclear energy in America?
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Ion beams simulate decades of reactor damage 1,000x faster at 1/1000th the cost

Ion beams can now qualify nuclear reactor materials up to 1,000 times faster than ...

Spinning Plasma Solves a Long-Standing Fusion Reactor Mystery

A persistent asymmetry in fusion exhaust has challenged researchers for years. New simulations show that plasma core rotation, working together with cross-field drifts, determines where particles land ...
Business Wire

Project Pele Begins Taking Shape with Start of Core Manufacturing

LYNCHBURG, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced today that work has commenced to fabricate the reactor core for the Pele microreactor at its BWXT Innovation Campus in ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Explained: How this US firm is building a meltdown-proof nuclear reactor

Nations are racing to deploy advanced reactors for cleaner, more secure nuclear energy, which ...
Nuclear Engineering International

Valar Atomics reactor airlifted to Utah

Valar Atomics’ Ward250 reactor has been transported via C-17 aircraft to Utah’s San Rafael Energy Lab in a first-of-its-kind airlift.
The Economist

Burying nuclear reactors might make them cleaner and cheaper

Sometimes an idea is so elegant that it really deserves to work. One such is a proposal put forward by the boss of Deep Fission, an aspiring nuclear-power firm in Berkeley, California. Elizabeth ...
Brattleboro Reformer

Vermont Yankee's reactor building to start coming down

VERNON — The last remaining large structure at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant site is about to come down. The reactor building, a distinctive green with a white top and five stories tall, has been ...