Since initiating the program’s design phase two years ago, the DARPA-NASA management team has encountered the challenges inherent in sending a nuclear reactor into space for the first time in ...

The Chinese government has claimed that it has been "forced" to develop nuclear weapons as a United States official issued a warning about China's weapons of mass destruction program. Newsweek has ...

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TerraPower claims that its Natrium technology is one of the fastest and lowest-cost paths to advanced, zero-carbon energy.

This means they use water as both a coolant and neutron moderator to control the nuclear reaction and produce useful electricity. However, the growing need for more clean energy is prompting ...

After all, large nuclear power plants have made a habit, at least in the west, of blowing their initial budgets and running years late. Take Sizewell C, a planned 3.2 gigawatt plant in eastern ...

Commercial nuclear reactors on the grid today, and most of those currently under construction, generally follow a similar blueprint: The fuel that powers the reactor is low-enriched uranium ...

All chemical reactions involve an energy change. We categorise reactions by the direction of this energy change. If energy is released by a reaction, the reaction is exothermic. If energy is absorbed ...

Acquisition also brings important contracts, collaboration and adds to existing pipeline of cutting edge small nuclear reactor technologies New York, N.Y., Jan. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE ...

At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over.

Renditions of NANO Nuclear Energy’s newly acquired technologies: Pylon for terrestrial (bottom) and space (top) applications and the Modular Micro Reactor (MMR®) Energy System (right).

Manchester United simply tweeted the word "justice" after they saw off Arsenal on penalties in the FA Cup. The holders were handed a tough third round tie as they headed to the Emirates, but ...