25 Mar 2024, 18:42 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Once the gold standard for nuclear energy production alongside the United States, the UK laid claim to operating the first commercial nuclear fission reactor.
28 Dec 2023, 04:34 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If all goes to plan, each of Spain's final six active nuclear reactors will be completely shut down by 2035 at the earliest.
14 Dec 2023, 19:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Unlike the vast majority of past and contemporary fission reactors, molten-salt reactors do away with water entirely in their reactor section.
16 Oct 2023, 02:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / To understand why roads choked with electric cars might bode well for nuclear energy, we need to understand just how much power a fully-EV grid would require.
18 Sep 2023, 19:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It might be difficult not to write off Pulsar Fusion's operation as little more than weapons-grade ambition. But their founder and CEO seems dead set.
16 Aug 2023, 04:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In an online space that often tries to digest very serious topics behind the humor of internet memes, is it surprising the demon core is making a comeback?
2 Aug 2023, 17:17 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Reducing transit time is vital for human missions to Mars to limit a crew's exposure to radiation," declared Kirk Shireman.
27 Jul 2023, 15:17 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Today, at least seven T131 cannons reside in museums across North America, along with some of their prime mover trucks, are on display in museums
2 Jun 2023, 18:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Even an announcement by TerraPower themselves, stating that the MCRE enriched uranium would not be used commercially did little to quell fears.
23 May 2023, 03:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In many ways, Chornobyl and Zaporizhzhia are two reactor facilities joined at the hip not only by country, but by bloody warfare as well
5 May 2023, 23:56 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With the AP1000, AP300, and also the eVinci microreactor, the Westinghouse Electric team of Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, managed to run the whole gamut.
29 Apr 2023, 08:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Located on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, the first fission reactor complex at this novel facility just received its first batch of uranium fuel.
23 Apr 2023, 00:26 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With a menacing Russian bear threatening to freeze all of Europe last winter with nat-gas pipeline shutdowns, it couldn't have come online at a better time.
2 Apr 2023, 16:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the story of the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station. One of New York State's least appreciates technological triumphs.
23 Mar 2023, 02:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's important to avoid getting caught napping when it comes to the nuclear fission side of things. Molten salt reactors are the real deal.
19 Mar 2023, 20:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With the blessing of the ESA member state UK Space Agency, Rolls-Royce revealed that a new round of funding had been secured to build a Moon reactor
19 Mar 2023, 18:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The 600 or so employees working at the facility were alerted to signs of an anomaly within the reactor's coolant water tank on March 16th, 2023
16 Mar 2023, 23:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's possible Germany, and its anti-atomic coalition may one day come to regret their decision to turn their back on nuclear energy.
9 Mar 2023, 23:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The prospects of a whole fleet of eVinci Mircroreactors replacing great swaths of dirty, cancer-causing diesel power stations sounds like a win to us.
3 Mar 2023, 00:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Under the guidelines of what's dubbed the Civil Nuclear Credit Program (CNCP), the first round of federal grants is aimed at aging domestic nuclear plants