The collaboration between Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) has secured an Approval in Principle (AIP) for its conceptual design of a floating small ...

All the different types of small modular reactors generate heat the same way: by splitting heavy atoms and capturing the heat ...

The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) have received Approval in Principle (AiP) from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for the conceptual design of ...

An innovative algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles within nuclear fusion reactors has been developed, inspired by technologies used to determine whether bullets hit targets in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fabrication of the reactor core for the Project Pele prototype mobile microreactor - the first microreactor to be built and operated in the USA - has begun at BWX Technologies' Innovation Campus in ...

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 ...

Russia’s integrated nuclear power major Rosatom today said its Nuclear Fuel Division (managed by TVEL JSC) has supplied ...