Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

The CEO of BWXT called Tennessee the "center of the nuclear universe" as the $2.7 billion company grows its footprint in the ...

The forging of parts of the reactor pressure vessel for unit six of Hungary's Paks nuclear power plant - the second unit of the Paks II project - has begun in Russia. (Image: Paks II Ltd) Workers at ...

Finnish small modular reactor developer Steady Energy is to build a non-nuclear pilot facility at the decommissioned ...

It will manufacture the reactor pressure vessel, the largest component of the 300-megawatt reactor designed by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, for small modular reactors in the U.S. and Canada.

The top lid of the reactor pressure vessel, which had contained nuclear fuel during its service, was removed by a crane that day. This unprecedented phase in Japan marked the true start of the ...

Months after satellites picked up a massive nuclear ... salt reactor (MSR) theoretically carries far less risk in the event of a meltdown compared to water-based systems, as salts can carry greater ...

The second sample of melted nuclear fuel has been retrieved from crippled Fukushima reactor, according to the operator of the ...

“It is a fact that the pedestal’s ability to support (the nuclear reactor) has been maintained,” the official said. Still, the company can’t deny the possibility that the pressure vessel ...

The electricity needed to power huge data centres has sparked a renewed interest in the potential of small modular reactors. The FT's Pilita Clark looks at whether SMRs will help with the clean energy ...