Small Modular Reactors Explained - Nuclear Power's Future? The growing popularity of solar and wind energy sometimes ...

Nuclear power has long been associated with radioactive waste. But as Tim Gregory argues in his compelling book, it might ...

NASA revived roll thrusters on the 47-year-old Voyager 1 that were thought to be dead for two decades. According to the space agency, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, located ...

At Purdue University, a nuclear reactor no bigger than a walk-in closet is doing what no other U.S. reactor has done: Becoming a test bed for the digital future of nuclear power. Buried ...

Although some countries already have reactors with digital controls, PUR-1 is the only all-digital reactor that has been licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. All-digital means that the ...

Over the 48 years since Voyager 1 was launched, these thrusters have begun to show their age and NASA has had to deal with clogging fuel lines and persnickety valves by all manner of work arounds ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

Kairos Power partnered with Materion Corp. in Elmore, Ohio, to commission the construction and operation of the Molten Salt Purification Plant (MSPP). In 2022 it produced unenriched FLiBe for the ...

During the tests, the fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes. That’s 4,220 degree Fahrenheit (2,326°C), roughly equivalent to the heat a nuclear rocket engine would ...

WASHINGTON — Voyager Space, a Denver-based space exploration and technology company, announced Jan. 16 it is changing its name to Voyager Technologies to emphasize a broader focus on national ...

Supplying fuel to remote military bases has always been an expensive headache. A new miniature reactor can produce hydrogen to make synthetic fuel wherever it is needed.

Rolls-Royce is in early-stage talks with potential commercial customers for its planned micro nuclear reactor, a technology it hopes will also provide power for space missions. Jake Thompson ...