These organic materials likely helped to bind ... Today, the Oklo natural nuclear reactor continues to fascinate scientists and the public alike, not just as a historical curiosity but as an ...

The course introduces the student to the physics and engineering of nuclear power reactor cores. Topics included are nuclear reactions, neutron chain reactions, criticality and reactor kinetics, ...

A tiny neutrino detector has found its footing in a fresh setting — at a nuclear reactor. Conventional detectors of the subatomic particles require metric tons of material. But the new detector ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Enron has announced the “Enron Egg”, a micro-nuclear reactor that the newly reformed company claims can power homes for a decade. The only ...

Since initiating the program’s design phase two years ago, the DARPA-NASA management team has encountered the challenges inherent in sending a nuclear reactor into space for the first time in ...

Reporting from Europe, Jeff McMahon covers the environment. Nuclear reactors can cost twice as much in the United States and Europe than in Asian countries where the industry is flourishing ...

The 1,200-acre tract owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority could one day be home to the nation's first commercially operating small modular nuclear reactors, but it is also haunted by a failed ...

2 proposed extending the maximum operating life of nuclear reactors beyond the current 60 years through additional safety inspections. The NRA, the government’s nuclear power industry watchdog ...

Now a nuclear startup wants to bury a small reactor underground, using depth as a substitute for the tons of concrete required to safeguard aboveground reactors. The company, Deep Fission ...