Burnable absorbers are key components in modern nuclear reactor design, serving to mitigate the excess reactivity inherent in fresh reactor cores while simultaneously enhancing operational safety and ...
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‘World’s simplest’, small nuclear reactors that can power a city being evaluated for safety
International regulators are increasingly cooperating to evaluate the safety of new small modular reactor ...
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Rolls-Royce turns to aseismic bearings to de-risk small nuclear reactor during earthquakes
Rolls-Royce SMR, the company tasked with building the next generation of nuclear reactors in ...
Reactor radiation-shielding optimization methods are proposed by combining many-objective evolutionary algorithms with particle-transport calculation software that can optimize the reactor ...
Preliminary testing has taken place of an ultrasound system which is designed to provide an additional picture of the BN-800 fast neutron reactor core at Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant. Beloyarsk unit ...
An artist’s rendering shows the AP300 small modular reactor design that Westinghouse Electric Co. announced in 2023. As the nation responds to soaring demands for power and sharp spikes in electricity ...
Theoretically, there's no better, more practical source of reliable, carbon-free energy than the current generation of nuclear reactors. In practice, the theory holds water, but there are still a few ...
This accelerating technology and underutilized resource could reshape global energy geopolitics — meet the molten-salt ...
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