Unlike traditional large-scale reactors, SMRs can be manufactured in a factory setting and transported to the site where they ...

Here the water finds itself amidst the fuel rods, with neutrons flying everywhere ... Schematic of a sodium-cooled fast reactor. Changing an FBR design to FNR involves removing the 238 U blanket ...

Most new nuclear fission reactors being built today are ... processes as a lot of U-235 fuel remains in these fuel rods. Since Natrium uses sodium as its coolant instead of water (the reason ...

Global interest in fast reactors has been growing since their inception in 1960 because they can provide efficient, safe and sustainable energy. Their closed fuel cycle can support ... also as ...

Flow-induced vibration (FIV) in nuclear fuel rods is a critical area of research due to its implications for the safety and efficiency of nuclear reactors. As fluid flows around fuel rods ...

BEIJING--A Chinese nuclear power plant near Hong Kong had five broken fuel rods in a reactor but no radioactivity leaked, the government said Wednesday in its first confirmation of the incident ...

TEPCO said on Dec. 26 that it would conduct additional retrieval of melted fuel debris from the No. 2 reactor next spring. As with the first removal of the sample, a fishing rod-shaped device will ...

The Natrium technology features an advanced nuclear design with a 345 MW sodium-cooled fast reactor with a gigawatt-scale molten salt-based energy storage system. The energy storage capability allows ...