Red, white and glowing blue: Trump's push for new reactors reaches the finish line

A program initiated by the Trump administration has allowed small companies to rush their testing of several new nuclear reactor designs. Some worry that safety is being compromised.
Ecoticias

Canada buried a 1,050-ton slab east of Toronto to seat the first grid-scale nuclear reactor a G7 nation has ever built, and how it cools itself breaks every rule

Canada begins building the first grid scale SMR in a G7 nation, using a massive buried foundation and a reactor designed to ...
Purdue University

At the nation’s only all-digital nuclear reactor, engineers conduct the first experiments of their kind in the U.S.

Purdue University Reactor Number One has specific features that no other reactor in the U.S. has. Purdue’s reactor is ...

Meet Oklo: Around 2 billion years ago, nature built Earth's only known self-sustaining nuclear reactor - no humans required

Two billion years ago, Gabon hosted Earth's only known natural nuclear reactor. This ancient reactor operated cyclically for ...
Tech Xplore

Molten salt reactors: A new testing facility improves pump shaft seals

Molten salt nuclear reactors may generate energy more efficiently than conventional water-cooled reactors while producing ...