Larsen & Toubro partners with Clean Core Thorium Energy for nuclear power
Engineering major L&T and US-based Clean Core Thorium Energy sign an MoU to provide clean energy solutions globally. Their ...
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Companies planning 2 Oak Ridge nuclear projects partner with Google and Amazon
The advanced design to be tested in Oak Ridge incorporates two Oak Ridge National Laboratory innovations: TRISO nuclear fuel and a fluoride salt coolant to carry away the fuel’s heat and potentially ...
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Transmutation of Uranium and Thorium by Neutrons (1939)
Spread the loveIn 1939, groundbreaking research in nuclear physics unveiled the potential for transmuting elements via ...
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Nuclear rockets could travel to Mars in half the time − but designing the reactors that would power them isn’t easy
More than 400 nuclear power reactors in operation around the world currently use nuclear fission technology. The majority of these nuclear power reactors in operation are light water reactors.
Bill Gates-backed TerraPower Isotopes produces rare, radioactive ingredient sought for cancer drugs
Nearly a decade ago, radio chemists at the nuclear power startup TerraPower saw a promising opportunity in radioactive waste ...
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Silicon Valley has a plan to save humanity: Just flip on the nuclear reactors
History is, tragically, on their side. To be sure, nuclear power today is better understood than it was in 1979, when Three Mile Island’s Reactor Two experienced a partial core meltdown ...
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Major U.S. power companies shut units in wake of storm
Southern Company also reduced output from another nuclear reactor at its Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant in Georgia after the storm damaged the area's broader power system, the company told ...
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Putin’s nuclear threats: empty rhetoric or a shift in battlefield strategy?
President Vladimir Putin made a chilling declaration this week when he proposed changes to Russia’s nuclear war policies. One of the most concerning was the possibility of mobilising the ...
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Putin revises his nuclear doctrine, but have his red lines shifted?
Russian President Vladimir Putin is fond of nuclear saber-rattling: On the eve of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin leader presided over the rehearsal of a ...
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Rising electricity demand could bring Three Mile Island and other prematurely shuttered nuclear plants back to life
Three Mile Island was the site in 1979 of a partial meltdown at the plant’s Unit 2 reactor. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission calls this event “the most serious accident in U.S. commercial ...
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‘Cheaper with nuclear’: What will Dutton’s nuclear plan really cost
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is refusing to release the costings of his nuclear energy policy, despite claiming a national fleet of reactors would slash power bills. But enough work has been ...
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Sweden To Start Building New Nuclear Reactor By 2026: PM
Sweden will begin construction on a new nuclear reactor before the country's next legislative election in 2026, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said in an interview published on Friday. His right ...