Since initiating the program’s design phase two years ago, the DARPA-NASA management team has encountered the challenges inherent in sending a nuclear reactor into space for the first time in ...

To meet that demand, Eagle Mountain is considering allowing small nuclear reactors and other alternate power sources, like natural gas power plants and battery storage systems, to be built on some ...

TerraPower is now also supported by the US Department of Energy, which gave the company an $80 million grant in October 2020 as part of its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Project program.

We’re seeing efforts to boost their power output, extend the lifetime of old reactors, and even reopen facilities that have shut down. That’s good news for climate action, because nuclear ...

Sodium-cooled fast reactors using metallic-alloy fuel are attracting attention because they are inherently safe and produce more fuel than they use.

TerraPower claims that its Natrium technology is one of the fastest and lowest-cost paths to advanced, zero-carbon energy.

Device fabrication began by loading AlN substrates with a dislocation density of around 10 3 cm-2 in an MOCVD reactor and depositing, at 1250 °C ... These diodes, with a cathode-to-anode distance of 5 ...

MILAN, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Newcleo signed on Wednesday two deals with Slovakia's nuclear companies Jadrová vyraďovacia spoločnosť (JAVYS) and VUJE to build up to four reactors for a cost of 3.2 ...

France is "far from ready" to build six nuclear reactors, the state's top audit body said on Tuesday, underlining the challenges the country faces in rejuvenating its ageing fleet of nuclear power ...

The planned construction of the next generation of nuclear reactors in France, which expects to have at least six of these, faces numerous challenges including in financing, supply chains ...

Diamond, often celebrated for its unmatched hardness and transparency, has emerged as an exceptional material for high-power electronics and next-generation quantum optics. Diamond can be ...

PARIS, Jan 14 (Reuters) - France is "far from ready" to build six nuclear reactors, the state's top audit body said on Tuesday, underlining the challenges the country faces in rejuvenating its ...