The research explores how nuclear waste, traditionally viewed as a major environmental liability that can remain radioactive for thousands of years, could be repurposed to generate hydrogen on an ...

Abstract: We describe a roadmap using three sets of technologies to enable base-load nuclear reactors to replace all fossil fuels in a low-carbon world. The technologies integrate nuclear, wind, solar ...

Nuclear waste remains a major environmental hazard due to its long-lasting radioactivity, which can persist for thousands of ...

While the U.S. Department of Defense noted that tritium is "relatively harmless" and that most of it is excreted through ...

A plan by the US Army to deploy small modular nuclear reactors could help the military replace fossil fuels shipped along ...

China has successfully achieved the first-ever thorium to uranium nuclear fuel conversion in a Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR), and obtained valid experimental data following thorium fuel loading, ...

Nanonuclear is vertically integrated microreactor and advanced nuclear technology company that raised $20 million on July 18, 2024 in a stock offering and had raised $8 million in earlier funding.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently recognized Stephen T. Lam, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, with an Early Career Research Program award worth $876,564. The award, to be ...

A recent visit to Constellation Energy’s R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant in Ontario, New York inspired Claire Dantzlerward to pursue an internship in the field of nuclear engineering. Dantzlerward, a ...

The Russian military claims to have flown its Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile 8,700 miles over 15 hours.

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