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STEP tokamak gets modular fusion reactor core design to reduce downtime, boost maintenance

The engineering strategy behind the UK’s upcoming prototype fusion reactor has shifted toward long-term ...

Hadron Energy Announces Publication of Its First U.S. Patent Application for the Integral Architecture Behind the Halo Micro-Modular Reactor

Hadron Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: HDRN) ("Hadron" or the "Company"), an advanced nuclear technology company, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published the Company ...

Clean Core Thorium Energy: CCTE's ANEEL Fuel Published in Leading Peer-Reviewed Journal, Building on Completed High-Burnup Irradiation at Idaho National Laboratory

Publication in Nuclear Engineering and Design follows the successful conclusion of a multi-year irradiation campaign at INL's ...
Ars Technica

Small modular nuclear reactor reaches criticality in first test

Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use ...
Power Engineering

MHI tapped to lead fast reactor design effort

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was selected as the core company in charge of the conceptual design of a demonstration fast reactor which the Japanese government aims to place into operation in the 2040s.
POWER Magazine

China Begins Operation of First CGN Hualong One Nuclear Reactor

The first Hualong One unit, a 1,180-MWe nuclear reactor designed by China General Nuclear (CGN), is now operational at the company’s Guangxi Fangchenggang Nuclear Power Station in western China’s ...