Top of an RBMK at the Leningrad plant. Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all make perfect sense to a trained ...

Milwaukee-based industrial heavyweight Rockwell Automation has been selected as the control platform provider for Aalo Atomics’ Aalo-X test reactor, a move aimed at speeding up the development of ...

Engineers have successfully run five live tests using an automated system to stabilize a ...

(IDAHO FALLS, Idaho) – The highly anticipated National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments (DOME) test bed is open for business. DOME, located at the Idaho ...

Kairos Power completes initial testing of a Hermes 2 reactor cavity mockup, testing modular concrete shielding and robotic ...

The reactor core is the central part of a nuclear reactor where nuclear fission occurs. It consists of four basic systems and components: the fuel (including fuel rods and the fuel assembly structure) ...

Nuclear technology company Oklo has announced its Groves Isotope Test Reactor has achieved first criticality, while Deep Fission's underground reactor has received safety design approval. Both ...

Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use ...

As countries deploy new nuclear reactor technologies, introduce new fuel designs and seek to extend the operating life of existing nuclear power plants, a new IAEA coordinated research project aims to ...