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 ...

Founded by Bill Gates, TerraPower is one of the nuclear industry’s leading startups. But the fiery history of its cooling ...

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 ...

Core disruptive accidents (CDAs) in sodium-cooled fast reactors represent a severe class of events in which the integrity of the reactor core is rapidly compromised, leading to the dispersal of molten ...

One of the key areas in both the Generation IV International Forum (GIF) and the IAEA programmes on innovative nuclear systems is the harmonization of safety approach, safety requirements, safety ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed its draft safety evaluation (SE) a month ahead of schedule—albeit with open items—for TerraPower’s Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1, a ...

Aalo has completed the Final Design Review for its 10 MWe sodium‑cooled Aalo-X reactor at INL, aiming for criticality by July ...

The scope of this first Joint Workshop between the IAEA and the Generation IV International Forum (GIF) covers various national Sodium Cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) operational and safety approaches. The ...

Newcleo has raised another €75m in financing to advance lead-cooled fast reactor development, pre-licensing, and industrial ...

French startup Stellaria is asking regulators for permission to build an experimental fast-neutron molten salt reactor that ...

Matthew Weathered’s THETA experiment offers high fidelity data for nuclear reactor computer code development within one of METL’s 71-cm diameter test vessels at Argonne. All U.S. nuclear reactors, ...