Although to most the term ‘fission reactor’ brings to mind something close to the commonly operated light-water reactors (LWRs) which operate using plain water (H 2 O) as coolant and with sluggish, ...

Bo Feng, national technical director of DOE-NE's Fast Reactor Program and manager of Argonne’s Reactor and Fuel Cycle Analysis Group, discusses research with engineers in the METL facility. Nuclear ...

Despite many challenges, construction of the Brest-OD-300 lead-cooled fast reactor is underway, with start-up expected in ...

"Integral fast reactors" and other "fourth generation" nuclear power concepts have been gaining attention, in part because of comments by US climate scientist James Hansen. "We need hard-headed ...

Based on GEHitachi's PRISM integral fast reactor design, Natrium is a modular, pool type, liquid-sodium-cooled reactor that runs on high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU) containing between 5 and 20 ...

Over the next few decades, dozens of coal power plants around the country will reach the end of their operational lives, and will need to be replaced with new, clean energy sources. The city of ...

Xcel Energy officials and others examine the 38-foot-deep pool which holds spent fuel rods taken out of the reactor. (The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

First American Nuclear has announced plans to build an energy park in Indiana, featuring its EAGL-1 lead-bismuth fast reactor ...