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 ...

X-energy has launched a critical 13-month irradiation test for its advanced, non-melting TRISO-X fuel at Idaho National Lab.

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.

The UK will build a high-temperature gas reactor as the centrepiece of its Advanced Modular Reactor Research, Development & Demonstration Programme, energy minister Greg Hands has confirmed. "I'm ...

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 ...

British Energy has restarted two of the four Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors that have been out of service for almost one-and-a-half years for boiler closure unit (BCU) repairs. The other two are ...

Advanced nuclear reactor company X-energy will become a publicly-traded company after a business combination agreement with special-purpose acquisition company Ares Acquisition Corporation. The merger ...

The University of Manchester has been awarded a grant for a program to change the graphite lifecycle in nuclear reactors. The program, led by the University of Manchester, will also see participation ...

Water cooled reactors have played a significant role in the commercial nuclear industry since its beginnings and currently account for more than 95 per cent of all operating civilian power reactors in ...