Scientists have discovered that a piece of uranium extracted from an African mine is a two billion-year-old natural nuclear ...
Now a nuclear startup wants to bury a small reactor underground, using depth as a substitute for the tons of concrete required to safeguard aboveground reactors. The company, Deep Fission ...
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Spain’s spherical nuclear reactor achieves first plasma with ‘negative triangularity’This achievement takes the reactor into its operational phase, bringing us closer to clean and limitless energy using nuclear ...
US small modular reactor (SMR) firm Kairos Power has completed the design, construction, and installation of the reactor ...
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US to deploy molten salt reactors to turn wastewater into freshwaterA novel small modular reactor design will use its waste heat to desalinate water produced in Texan oil and gas wells.
With the latest round of funding, Helion has raised over $1 billion in capital since it was founded in 2013. The company ...
The clean energy source we’ve been pursuing for decades is advancing with 200,000 “plasma shots” at General Atomics in San ...
Unlike nuclear fission, the nuclear fusion reaction in a tokamak is an inherently safe reaction. But fusion is a finely balanced reaction which is very sensitive to the conditions. The reaction ...
Chinese researchers set a new record by sustaining a nuclear fusion reaction at 100 million degrees Celsius for 1,066 seconds ...
It was then a startup that had raised over $8 million to develop micro nuclear fission reactors with up to 2 megawatts of power. The reactors will be transported by Semi Trucks. I, Brian Wang of ...
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New nuclear fuel withstands 4,220°F heat, will fly rockets to Mars in just 45 daysGeneral Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.
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