Yet despite improvements in the design of nuclear-fission reactors, there remain public concerns about their safety and the waste that they produce. Many have suggested that harnessing nuclear ...

In a global first, researchers at Tsinghua University in China have successfully demonstrated a meltdown-proof nuclear ...

Although to most the term ‘fission reactor ... 1954 when the Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) reached first criticality. ARE was an off-shoot of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program ...

Most new nuclear fission ... design will be allowed for new construction in the US. With that approval in hand, the NRC would still have to approve the construction of each individual Natrium ...

The WEST reactor prevents plasma from escaping by using magnetic fields to confine it in one place. Nuclear fusion and nuclear fission are nuclear processes, in that they involve nuclear forces to ...

Nuclear fission power plants have the disadvantage of generating unstable nuclei; some of these are radioactive for millions of years. Fusion on the other hand does not create any long-lived ...

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 ...

(Deep Fission), the trailblazing nuclear energy startup transforming the industry by delivering safe, scalable, onsite, and cost-effective power from small modular reactors (SMRs) a mile ...

Small modular reactors are small nuclear fission reactors that can be manufactured in factories and then installed elsewhere, and are typically of a smaller capacity than conventional nuclear ...