In the world of nuclear energy, the fast-breeder reactor is considered the power source of the future. Not only do breeders have longer lasting fuel elements than standard, water-moderated ...

December — Dr. Enrico Fermi achieves the first controlled nuclear chain reaction ... boiling-water reactor called the Borax III. November — An experimental breeder reactor about 50 miles ...

Jimmy Carter formed the Department of Energy, opposed a major Oak Ridge nuclear project and responded to Three Mile Island.

In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain ... reaction, the first created by humans, on Dec. 2, 1942, in a squash court under the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago.

It will help turn used material recovered from DOE’s former Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II reactor ... that produces ...

This isn't the first time a big nuclear project has been planned for the Clinch River Site, a 1,200-acre tract at the far ...

As a refresher, the water used in current commercial fission reactors acts as a moderator on the neutrons that are produced during a nuclear fission chain reaction, effectively slowing them down.

Fast neutron reactors can increase efficiency of nuclear energy and shrink the environmental footprint ... to sustain the fission chain reaction. While only a fraction of natural uranium is used as ...

Just as today's nuclear industry promotes small modular reactors developed in partnership with tech giants as a key to a clean energy future, proponents of breeder reactors were greatly optimistic ...