Experimental fuel capsules being staged at the Advanced Test Reactor. Source: Clean Core Thorium Energy A ...

TerraPower’s Natrium reactor is one such fast reactor, and it’s the world’s first fast reactor that not only targets commercial use, but also comes with its own grid-level storage in the ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) represent a significant shift in nuclear reactor design, utilizing liquid fuel instead of solid fuel rods. This approach offers ... Among these designs are sodium-cooled ...

Southern Nuclear uses new fuel assemblies enriched above 5% in a US reactor for the first time, testing high assay low enriched uranium.

In light-water reactors, fuel rods packed with uranium pellets are submerged in water, which slows neutrons to a speed that induces fission in the uranium and heats the rods.

June 10, 2024 TerraPower, celebrated the start of construction on the Natrium reactor demonstration project. This marks the first advanced reactor project to move from design into construction in the ...

U.S. group TerraPower is confident its first Natrium advanced nuclear reactor will be built by 2030 with construction plans and licensing running smoothly, but fuel supply remains a concern, the ...

Did you know that more than 90% of the potential energy that exists in fuel rods when they’re loaded into commercial nuclear reactors still remains in the fuel after five years of operation ...

Experimental fuel assemblies for the BN-600 reactor incorporating BN-1200 fuel rods have been manufactured at the Siberian Chemical Combine in Seversk with the intention they will be loaded into the ...

Fast reactors 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 ...