MIT research uncovers boiling's potential, driving advances in energy, cooling, and safety, with applications from power ...

Most nuclear power plants currently operational worldwide are second-generation reactors. The next step is to transition to the third generation, a nuclear power technology that is safer ...

Recently, a Hualong reactor at the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in Fujian province was connected to the grid and was successfully operated for 168 hours. For context, Hualong One is an advanced, ...

How is the splitting of heavy nuclei used to produce energy in nuclear reactors? In this course, you will get a thorough introduction to the physics of a nuclear reactor. We discuss the fission chain ...

China’s rapidly expanding nuclear power industry passed a major milestone on New Year’s Day, as the first reactor at a sprawling new plant on the country’s southeastern coastline started ...

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, ...

and it altered substantially all our views about nuclear physics. Now, the Oklo site is recognized worldwide as the first natural reactor known to humankind, and the discovery has raised many ...

The course builds upon FYS4580 – Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Physics, delving deeper into the physics underlying the design and operation of a nuclear reactor. Furthermore, it connects energy ...

The Oklo reactor’s two-billion-year-old uranium ore. Ludovic Ferriere/Vienna Natural History Museum Long before humans conceptualized nuclear energy, nature had already engineered its own reactor.