Novel nuclear rocket fuel test could accelerate NASA's Mars mission
A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, joined by university students, recently traveled to The ...
SMR firms race to build a nuclear fuel supply chain
Small modular reactor (SMR) developers in the U.S. have announced a string of deals and investments to secure steady supplies ...
Real-time monitoring of advanced nuclear fuel now possible with new test bed
To meet energy demands and reestablish the nation's energy dominance, U.S. companies are developing several types of advanced ...
NANO Nuclear Energy Bolsters the Engineering Team Overseeing the Development of its ODIN™ Microreactor with Three Additional Leading Professionals
Radwan Nassim Kheroua joins as a Nuclear Systems Engineer, Luke Godfrey as a Senior Nuclear Engineer, and Jake Miles as a ...
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Nuclear fusion fuel could be made greener with new chemical process
Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a ...
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Nuclear fuel: China unlocks 40 times more efficient seawater uranium extraction
Facing a growing uranium demand fueled by expanding nuclear energy, China is turning to the vast reserves hidden in its ...
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Producing nuclear fusion fuel is banned in the US for being too toxic, but these researchers found an alternative
Lithium-6 is essential for producing nuclear fusion fuel, but isolating it from the much more common isotope, lithium-7, usually requires liquid mercury, which is extremely toxic. Now, researchers ...
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Nuclear fusion fuel without toxic mercury
Nuclear fusion reactors, if and when they become practical, will need a steady supply of fuel. The source of that fuel is the ...
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NASA's Mars Mission Boost: Novel Nuclear Fuel Test
Brandon Wilson, Bryan Conry, Pavel Shilenko and Emily Hutchins gather around the Ohio State University Research Reactor ...