The assembly of the reactor has been completed at unit 3 of Turkey's Akkuyu nuclear power plant. Meanwhile, the fuel to be used in the second unit has also been delivered to the site. The vessel of ...

After a long absence, Canada is back in the business of exporting nuclear reactors. In November, Montreal-based AtkinsRéalis Group Inc. (formerly SNC-Lavalin) announced it will participate in a ...

The environment is the biggest concern most people have about nuclear power. It is possible for a reactor to melt down, leading to a runaway fission reaction that can spread radiation widely. This ...

The site will also host the proposed single 35-MWth Hermes 1 test reactor, a non-nuclear engineering test unit, and potentially a Kairos Power fuel fabrication facility. Construction on Hermes 1 ...

Electron runaway arises from plasma instabilities within fusion reactors. “Fusion reactors work by extracting tremendous sums of energy from the fusion of lighter atomic nuclei into a heavier ...

While in the Navy, Mr. Carter served on a military team that helped dismantle parts of a nuclear reactor at the Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario, Canada, after a partial meltdown in 1952.

The race to construct Canada’s first new nuclear power reactor in 40 years seems to have passed a point of no return. This summer, Ontario Power Generation completed regrading the site for its ...

Georgia Power, though late and overbudget, celebrated in 2024 the completion of the first new nuclear reactors built in the U.S. in decades. Tech companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft signed ...

The plan also calls for acceleration of the restarts of reactors that meet the post-Fukushima safety standards, and proposes construction of next-generation reactors -- at plants where existing ...

China claims to have achieved a ‘world record’ in shipbuilding by developing a massive cargo ship similar to its Fujian aircraft carrier. Named Fan Zhou 8, the cargo ship has an unprecedented ...

Among the cargo was two big cranes, photos of vessel shows. Newspaper Kommersant also confirms that Ursa Major had the two 45-tons hatches to cover the top of the two reactors for a new icebreaker.

Sources say uranium has been found in a sample of fuel debris retrieved from the No.2 reactor at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This is the first time uranium has been ...