The EAGLES Consortium and French developer newcleo have signed a collaboration agreement to develop the LEANDREA technology demonstrator. The partnership, announced at the “Taking the Lead” event, ...

Nuclear energy has the potential to solve many of the world's energy problems. One nuclear reactor outputs the same amount of energy as 8.5 million solar panels, but currently, the United States only ...

The pebbles are fed into the reactor via a hopper and, as the nuclear chain reaction proceeds, are cooled by helium gas to an operating temperature of 750 °C (1,382 °F). This configuration is favored ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) gave TerraPower the go-ahead this week to build a new nuclear reactor in the shadow of an aging coal power plant in Wyoming. TerraPower’s permit is the first to ...

Safer operation, better fuel efficiency and lower waste mark lead-cooled nuclear power as a potentially dramatic shift from the water-cooled nuclear stations the world has relied on since the mid 20 ...

Newcleo subsidiary SRS Servizi di Ricerche e Sviluppo has been contracted by Romanian state-owned nuclear R&D coordination organisation RATEN to supply lead-cooled nuclear reactor research facilities.

TerraPower’s project in Wyoming, which uses novel technology, is the first new commercial reactor to receive federal approval in nearly a decade. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington See more of ...

Nuclear energy in the West took another step forward as the first privately developed, non-light-water reactor to go critical in the United States in more than 40 years reached a major milestone when ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on March 4 authorized staff to issue a construction permit for TerraPower’s Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 in Kemmerer, Wyoming—the first commercial reactor the ...