Lately, work on the next-gen nuclear fuel system has increased. Last week, US-based Standard Nuclear Inc. and French nuclear ...

The ORNL study confirms that these imperfections do not disturb the atomic vibrations within the graphite, which are ...

Preliminary testing has taken place of an ultrasound system which is designed to provide an additional picture of the BN-800 ...

Enter the high-resolution neutron spectrometer, the device that scientists believe will allow them to monitor conditions ...

Workers at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (RIAR) in Dimitrovgrad, Russia, have installed what they call the world’s largest multipurpose fast neutron research reactor, or MBIR, at the site.

Neutron beam research and reactor technology constitute a vibrant field at the forefront of materials analysis, non‐destructive imaging and advanced reactor design. The utilisation of neutrons for ...

Rosatom has installed the 143-tonne central cavity shell for the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast reactor at Seversk.

French nuclear technology company NAAREA and Morocco’s Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) have signed a strategic ...

The figure illustrates the experimental setup used to measure neutron leakage spectra from natural lead (nat Pb) slab samples, employing both D-T and D-D neutron sources at the integral experiment ...

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, ...

A remarkable study led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory answers a decades-old question in nuclear science: Do tiny pores in ...