A Washington-based company has announced contract winners for the first Natrium plant reactor enclosure system (RES). Awarded by TerraPower, the contracts are aimed at advancing the development and ...

The global demand for sustainable energy solutions is growing at an unprecedented pace. Governments and private institutions across the globe are working on increasing the adoption of renewable energy ...

Bill Gates’ TerraPower broke ground yesterday on its Natrium nuclear reactor plant, making it the first advanced reactor project ever to start construction. Once it comes online, the Natrium ...

Bill Gates-backed nuclear energy firm Terrapower announced that it has received approval from the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council (ISC) on its permit for the first Natrium plant, Kemmerer Power ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois teamed up with the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) to develop a prototype sodium-cooled nuclear fast ...

Leading players have significant financial backing already lined up, often from technology companies and future customers.

Environmental management team members are priming three support facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for demolition in the near future. UCOR, the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management ...

(The Journal Star is running occasional reprints of Jim McKee columns. This one first appeared Feb. 9, 2014.) Although Nebraska’s earliest cabins were lit only by candles, coal oil lanterns followed ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — The demolition site of a major reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is cleaned up. The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental crews completed the cleanup Tuesday, ...

Graphite dust is generated as a by-product of normal operations in high temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs), predominantly arising from mechanical wear of graphite-based components. Typically ...