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 ...

Though he started his naval career aboard diesel electric submarines, Lt. Carter began working with the Naval Reactors Branch of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission -- the Navy's nuclear submarine ...

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 International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project agreement was formally signed in 2006 by the US, EU, Russia, China, India, and South Korea at the Elysée Palace in Paris.

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 ...

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.