Readers respond to Elizabeth Kolbert’s review of two new books about nuclear power and Nick Paumgarten’s Talk story about hanging out at McSorley’s with Peter Wolf.

Oklo's Small Modular Reactors are offering potential solutions to AI's growing energy demands. Read more to know if OKLO is just a speculative fervor or more.

The nation’s first sodium-cooled advanced nuclear reactor, which the company claims will be smaller in size, more cost-effective and safer than traditional reactors, would be built on the site ...

The institute has a facility (STELLA) to prove the safety by simulating accidents involving sodium-cooled fast reactors. Both sides plan to verify reactor data and evaluate the safety of sodium ...

There have been some intriguing stories lately about a different kind of reactor – one cooled by molten salt instead of the ... Mix hydrochloric acid (HCl) with sodium hydroxide (NaOH), and you’ll get ...

The Union of Concerned Scientists released a report in 2021 suggesting that “advanced” nuclear technologies — like sodium-cooled fast reactors ... in a car accident involving a semi truck ...

Small reactors have been used on aircraft carriers ... Right. - Some of those are cooled by sodium, liquid, molten sodium. Some are cooled by molten salt. - You mean salt? Oh, sodium's different ...

G. Radulescu, D. Hartanto, F. Bostelmann, and W. Wieselquist, "SCALE 6.3.1 Radiation Source Terms and Shielding Analysis for a Postulated Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Accident Scenario," Proceedings of ...

"But what they did after the accident is they formed an association ... with France and the United States on sodium-cooled fast reactors, which uses liquid metal rather than water for coolant.

Combining a sodium-cooled fast reactor with molten salt energy storage ... necessitating robust containment systems to prevent potential accidents. This characteristic underscores the importance ...

France continued with its Phenix and Superphénix projects for a few more years, finally closing Superphénix in 1998 and Phenix in 2009, Subsequently, in 2019, France also cancelled the Generation IV ...