When the second reactor opened at Connecticut’s Millstone Nuclear Power Station on Sept. 26, 1975, nuclear power was at the height of a golden age in the United States. Millstone, situated on a ...
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Ion beams simulate decades of reactor damage 1,000x faster at 1/1000th the cost
Ion beams can now qualify nuclear reactor materials up to 1,000 times faster than ...
Preliminary testing has taken place of an ultrasound system which is designed to provide an additional picture of the BN-800 fast neutron reactor core at Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant. Beloyarsk unit ...
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US approves 1,472°F nuclear fission chamber for next-gen reactors
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) reports it has tested a high-temperature fission chamber prototype built by ...
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Inside the biggest nuclear power plant in the US
The biggest nuclear power plant in the United States is not a single hulking reactor, but a sprawling complex whose scale is measured in gigawatts and square miles. Its turbines quietly push out ...
The method will be announced at the Electric Power Research Institute, March 10-11A thousand times faster than conventional testing, an ion beam ...
The interiors of fusion reactors can get seriously chaotic. But for obvious reasons—like extreme temperatures and pressures—researchers aren’t typically able to peek directly inside a reactor. Some ...
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