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Russia builds 8 nuclear reactors to fuel massive icebreakers, floating power plants
Russia’s Rosatom, the state corporation that manages its entire nuclear energy complex, has announced the start of the ...
Idaho National Lab testing salt-fueled nuclear reactor
The lab's Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) is testing a reactor design that replaces traditional fuel rods with a liquid mix of uranium and molten salt.
Pressurized electrolyzer achieves high-current NH₃ synthesis from nitrogen oxide
Electrocatalytic nitric oxide reduction reaction (NORR) offers a promising route for sustainable ammonia (NH3) synthesis and ...
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Eight RITM reactors currently under production
Russia's Rosatom has begun assembling the RITM-200 reactor vessel for the Leningrad nuclear-powered icebreaker, bringing the total number of RITM reactor units currently being produced at its ...
Design stage of small modular nuclear reactor completed: Jitendra Singh
India's Bharat Small Modular Reactor (BSMR) project, based on proven technology, aims to boost nuclear power capacity by 2047.
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100 kW plasma reactor powers Swedish startup to produce high-purity silicon output
Green14's pilot reactor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology hits 5 kg/h production of high-purity silicon and silane.
'Nervous and rushed': Massive Fukushima plant cleanup work involves high radiation and stress
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown 14 years ago. Workers walk around in many areas wearing only surgical masks and r ...
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What are Molten Salt Reactors?
Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...
World Nuclear News2d
Human error leads to water spill at Finnish EPR
About 100 cubic metres of slightly radioactive water flowed into rooms within the containment of Olkiluoto unit 3 after a ...