Specialists at JSC Research Institute NPO LUCH in Podolsk (part of Rosatom’s Scientific Division) have completed development ...

China is building a large-scale laser-ignited nuclear fusion research facility in Mianyang to enhance both nuclear weapons ...

Rosatom scientists have successfully completed the first stage of reactor testing of laboratory fuel samples for a ...

At ORNL, cleanup crews removed nearly 40,000 pounds of waste from the Experimental Gas-Cooled Reactor and a tricky reactor vessel from the former Oak Ridge Research Reactor, preparing it for ...

When Jay Mullis describes seeing uranium weep in yellow streaks from a wall at the Y-12 National Security Complex, he does so without alarm. It was just one of several surprises crews clearing out ...

Such simulations complement experimental findings and help refine safety assessments for LFRs. Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor (LFR): A type of nuclear reactor that uses lead or lead-bismuth as a coolant ...

Tokamak reactors are being extensively used to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion technology, with the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being the largest tokamak being ...

International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), successfully contained steady-state high-confinement plasma for nearly 17 minutes. This breakthrough occurred thanks to several upgrades to ...

Almost unlimited clean energy has been brought a step closer with the setting of a new world record for the sustained running of a nuclear fusion reactor. China's "artificial sun"—formally known ...

Scientists claim that China's "Artificial Sun" nuclear reactor has more than doubled its own previous world record, confining extremely high-energy plasma for a whopping 1,066 seconds this week ...