The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) has signed an agreement with ZettaJoule, an advanced small modular reactor company with operations in the U.S. and Japan, to explore building a ...

The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station has signed an agreement with advanced small modular reactor company ZettaJoule to explore building a very-high temperature modular reactor that could ...

I am involved in some HTR research, and due to popular demand, I’ll present some background info about them. Please, be also aware that I can only quote and discuss public information ...

When one of the largest modern earthquakes struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the nuclear reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi automatically shut down, as designed. The emergency systems, which would have ...

Six new nuclear reactor technologies are set to deploy for commercial use between 2030 and 2040. Called Generation IV nuclear reactors, they will operate with improved performance at dramatically ...

Fluoride-Cooled High Temperature Reactor (FHR) Fluoride-Cooled High Temperature Reactors (FHR) are high-temperature reactors that are cooled by a molten mixture of lithium fluoride and beryllium ...

Ion beams can now qualify nuclear reactor materials up to 1,000 times faster than ...

Kairos Power, an advanced nuclear reactor developer, has commissioned a molten salt purification plant (MSPP) that will produce “large quantities” of a high-purity coolant for reactors based on its ...

REUTERS - The Generation IV International Forum (GIF) was created in 2000 to perform research on new types of nuclear reactors to replace the water-cooled models that make up the majority of today's ...

Gen IV plants will be safer and less water intensive, but they won't be commercially viable until 2030 at the earliest. Will there still be market demand? Sign up here. The next generation of nuclear ...