The team used plasma-focused ion beam and digital image correlation (PFIB-DIC) to analyze previously inaccessible ...

Belgium’s Nuclear Research Centre’s BR2 research reactor will initially test both fuels for extreme irradiation conditions. To this end, both materials will spend between two- and three cycles ...

Materials research is central to meeting all three challenges. There are about 440 nuclear power reactors in operation worldwide, providing approximately 16 percent of global electricity generation.

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist There’s a lot of work that goes into designing and building a nuclear power plant. It’s a relatively clean source of energy, when compared to oil or coal, ...

Nuclear reactors could someday power a chemical plant in Texas, making it the first with such a facility onsite. The factory, which makes plastics and other materials, could become a model for ...

China has approved ten new nuclear reactors and currently has 30 under construction - almost half the total worldwide.

So that's the front end of the fuel cycle. Then, there is the back end: the management of the used fuel after its removal from a nuclear reactor. This might be reprocessed to recover fissile and ...

Additionally, molten nuclear reactors are more efficient than their predecessors, and are even potentially able to use waste materials that weren't completely spent in other nuclear processes.

China activates the world’s first thorium molten salt reactor that reloads fuel without shutdown—ushering in a safer, cleaner ...

Small modular nuclear reactors, or SMRs ... Okay. - It takes less material input and less energy input to build nuclear power plant than any other energy source. - Okay. - Per output of unit ...

One type of advanced reactor, a molten salt reactor, uses fuels dissolved in molten salt coolants instead of the solid fuels used in traditional nuclear ... the structural materials," said Ruchi ...

"Testing materials at exceptionally high temperatures ... missions to Mars in the 2040 timeframe. NTP engines use a nuclear reactor to heat hydrogen to ultra-high temperatures and then expel ...