On February 18, 2a group of volunteers from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park visited Oak Ridge to experience the newest National Park unit, the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, or at ...

Aalo Atomics has unveiled its Critical Test Reactor at INL to validate the core physics and control systems of its Aalo-X ...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have definitively answered a long-standing question: the tiny, natural pores inside graphite blocks do not affect the material’s performance as a ...

Frazer-Nash is to provide engineering services related to the fabrication of the graphite moderator for Terrestrial Energy's Integrated Molten Salt Reactor under a newly announced contract between the ...

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Molten salt reactors – nuclear power reactors that use liquid salt as primary coolant or a molten salt mixture as fuel – have many favourable characteristics for nuclear safety and sustainability. The ...

The explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant turned a routine safety test into a slow-motion war against an invisible enemy, fought while the ruined reactor kept burning. As the graphite core ...