Eight parties in the Netherlands have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to advance Thorizon’s molten salt reactor technology. In addition to reactor developer Thorizon, they include: EPZ, ...

The last few years have seen growing interest in the prospects for nuclear shipping. Numerous start-up and established companies have proposed a range of designs for nuclear-propelled ships or vessels ...

Artist’s impression of a spacecraft using Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) technology (Credit: General Atomics) Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Alabama have completed the ...

Unit 1 of Russia’s Kursk-II NPP, with a Kursk NPP-2 with an innovative Generation 3+ 1,252 MWe VVER-TOI reactor begins commercial operation after receiving final approval from the Federal Service for ...

Above: Experts in energy, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) convened at Argonne National Laboratory to map out the future potential for utilisation of AI (Photo credit: Henry C ...

“Don’t be so silly lad,” Yorkshire-born Leonard Owen, chairman of the production pile design committee, told Terence Price, newly-recruited to Harwell in 1947. “Two tons of air go up chimney every ...

The CAREM-25 SMR construction site in August 2024 (Source: CNEA) Construction of Argentina’s CAREM-25 small modular reactor (SMR) has once again been stopped, this time by layoffs of construction ...

Systemic risks could apply through a large range of direct and indirect vectors operating at different scales (Source: WHO) Over recent decades human societies at global scale have been increasingly ...

The existing buildings, including turbine halls and the large reinforced reactor domes at Biblis can be repurposed for laser laboratories, target fabrication, high-power laser test stations, and ...

The total scale of China’s nuclear power ambitions look likely to see the country soon rise to the top of world’s nuclear power rankings for the first time, overtaking long-term incumbent the USA. As ...

Oklo, NVIDIA, and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have announced a strategic collaboration to advance nuclear fuel validation and support the development of nuclear-powered AI factories. The ...

Two VVER-440 pressurised water reactors and their supporting systems have been successfully removed and dismantled at the Bohunice V1 plant in the Slovak Republic, bringing a major nuclear ...