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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

WHY IT'S IMPORTANT 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 ...

The BREST-OD-300 is a lead-cooled fast neutron reactor – and the beginning of pilot operations is a key milestone in the development of the Generation IV nuclear power system. The unit for ...

are seen in some countries as a promising advanced reactor technology because of the various benefits associated with them. They operate at higher temperatures, which lead to increased efficiencies in ...

SMART (Small Aspect Ratio Tokamak), the world's only fusion reactor with 'negative triangularity' constructed at the University of Sevilla in Spain, produced its first plasma. This is an important ...