China has begun operations of the world’s first fourth-generation nuclear reactor that uses gas for cooling unlike conventional power plants that use pressurised water. The power plant built in ...

UK ONR has placed EDF's Hartlepool NPP under significantly enhanced regulatory attention for health/safety incidents and ...

Gas‐cooled reactors, particularly those utilising helium as a coolant, rely on natural convection and associated heat transfer processes to maintain safe and efficient operational temperatures. In ...

SPRINGFIELDS, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westinghouse Electric Company announced today that it has signed an agreement with EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Limited (NGL) to supply fuel to Advanced ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) supports its Member States in improving safety of design and operation of nuclear fuel cycle facilities (NFCFs). The IAEA Safety Standards Series No.

Liquid-fueled molten-salt reactors, another new type, could increase waste volume too. In these designs, fuel and coolant are ...

NuScale’s reactor will seek to complement, not replace, a grid already dependent on renewables. During the day, it can ...

Chinas HL-2M nuclear fusion device, known as the new generation of ‘artificial sun’, is displayed at a research laboratory in Chengdu, in eastern China’s Sichuan province on 4 December, 2020 (AFP via ...