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New nuclear reactor tests zero in on ghost-like particles tied to dark matter puzzles
A collaboration of US-based researchers has turned to the PROSPECT-I detector at ORNL in search of the elusive sterile ...
Search for sterile neutrinos continues at nuclear reactors
Neutrinos, elusive fundamental particles, can act as a window into the center of a nuclear reactor, the interior of the Earth ...
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China Fires Up World's First Thorium-Powered Nuclear Reactor
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the successful refueling of an operational Thorium-powered nuclear ...
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US university to build 20 MW nuclear reactor to study cancer, advance drug research
The University of Missouri has teamed up with a Korean consortium to build a next-gen version of a nuclear reactor for ...
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Small nuclear reactors are no fix for California’s energy needs
It might seem like everyone from venture capitalists to the news media to the U.S. secretary of Energy has been hyping small modular reactors as the key to unlocking a nuclear renaissance and ...
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Why 2,000 workers were just hired at NW’s only nuclear power reactor
This is one of those springs — the every-other-year spring when the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power reactor, Columbia Generating Station near Richland, is shut down to have fresh ...