Lead-Cooled Fast Reactors (LFRs) are emerging as a promising technology in the realm of nuclear energy, particularly as part of the fourth generation of reactors. One critical safety concern ...

Sodium cooled fast reactors, lead and lead–bismuth cooled fast reactors and gas cooled fast reactors are currently being developed at national and international levels in compliance with higher ...

Rosatom along with nuclear fuel manufacturer TVEL have announced the start of construction of the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled reactor. Like the Natrium design, this is a Generation IV fast neutron ...

An agreement has been concluded to renew the Generation IV International Forum, which aims to build on its first 25 years of sharing research and development on innovative nuclear reactor designs, as ...

Lastly, the management of nuclear waste through transmutation in lead-cooled fast reactors has emerged as a critical area of research. This method aims to convert long-lived radioactive isotopes ...

French nuclear start-up Hexana, spun out the Alternative Energies & Atomic Energy Commission (CEA – Commissariat à l’énergie ...

Newcleo aims to build so-called lead-cooled fast reactors (LFR) that will allow the use of Slovakian spent nuclear fuel as fuel, offering a sustainable solution to deal with nuclear waste and ...

345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor The Natrium technology features ... The dispatchable and flexible energy that Natrium provides will lead to faster, more cost-effective decarbonization of ...

Swedish nuclear energy company Blykalla and Germany-based pump manufacturer KSB have announced a new partnership to develop ...

The unit for fabrication/refabrication of nuclear fuel for the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast neutron reactor has been put into pilot operation, Rosatom has announced ...

The industry ministry picked Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. as a company to play the core role in developing a next-generation nuclear reactor with a demonstration sodium-cooled fast reactor ...