These methods are how the nuclear industry safely manages the 10,000 metric tons of spent fuel waste that reactors produce as they churn out 10% of the world’s electricity every ...
From the hand powered Turtle of the American Revolution to modern nuclear submarines, this explores the engineering that lets submarines remain hidden for months. Inside the reactor, oxygen systems, ...
TerraPower’s project in Wyoming, which uses novel technology, is the first new commercial reactor to receive federal approval in nearly a decade. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington A novel type ...
The first light-water reactor at the new Russian nuclear facility, Kursk II, has now ...
Hanford demolished a 175‑foot reactor exhaust stack as a step toward cocooning. Explosives used to bring down stack at K West Reactor. Putting reactor in storage mode will cut monitoring costs.
A new nuclear age is upon us. That’s according to Corey Hines, the director of the Nuclear Science Center at Washington State University, who points to growing interest and new developments in ...
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker vowed to sign an executive order aimed at speeding up construction of new nuclear reactors in the state. During his “State of the State” address in Springfield Wednesday, ...
A contract has been signed for the development of detailed design documentation for work on parts of the turbine hall and deaerator stack that extend beyond the giant New Safe Confinement arch-shaped ...
Texas, may have done what many scientists are still striving to achieve. He claims to have generated nuclear fusion outside the famed tokamaks, the massive reactors typically used in global fusion ...
A decommissioned nuclear plant in Michigan is set to restart for the first time in U.S. history, alongside plans for new small modular reactors on the same site. The projects are backed by billions in ...
Fusion power moves closer to commercialization. Storing data for 10,000 years. Why AI won’t necessarily take your job. All that and more in this week’s edition of The Prototype. To get it in your ...