Oklo, NVIDIA, and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have announced a strategic collaboration to advance nuclear fuel validation and support the development of nuclear-powered AI factories. The ...

Decades of uranium enrichment operations at two former US gaseous diffusion plants yielded thousands of cylinders of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) that accumulated in storage yards. Now, with a ...

Artist’s impression of a spacecraft using Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) technology (Credit: General Atomics) Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Alabama have completed the ...

The CAREM-25 SMR construction site in August 2024 (Source: CNEA) Construction of Argentina’s CAREM-25 small modular reactor (SMR) has once again been stopped, this time by layoffs of construction ...

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has renewed the operating licence for a second time for unit 2 of Duke Energy’s HB Robinson Steam Electric Plant in South Carolina. This is the fastest ...

Above: Soviet PWR technology initially developed for icebreaker vessels such as the Yamal is the design origin of the RITM series With an over 80% market share, Rosatom has secured an almost ...

(Image credit: Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic) Rolls-Royce SMR and and Czech power company ČEZ Group have signed an Early Works Contract (EWC) that enables work to start on the ...

“Don’t be so silly lad,” Yorkshire-born Leonard Owen, chairman of the production pile design committee, told Terence Price, newly-recruited to Harwell in 1947. “Two tons of air go up chimney every ...

The total scale of China’s nuclear power ambitions look likely to see the country soon rise to the top of world’s nuclear power rankings for the first time, overtaking long-term incumbent the USA. As ...

Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from academic research into industrial practice, but its adoption in nuclear engineering remains under cautious review. This reticence is not ideological but ...

Tritium-producing burnable absorber rods (TPBAR) control rods are used in Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar reactors (Source: Bechtel) Since 2000, fusion has evolved from a single global project, ...

Legacy mines located near mountain water courses could affect both animals and the population. (Credit: Enrique from Pixabay) Central Asia was a key source of uranium for the former Soviet Union.