June 10, 2024 TerraPower, celebrated the start of construction on the Natrium reactor demonstration project. This marks the first advanced reactor project to move from design into construction in the ...

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 ...

The company says its application to build the Natrium reactor demonstration project is the first construction permit application for a commercial advanced reactor to be submitted to the US Nuclear ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

The 10-year framework agreement between X-energy Reactor Company and SGL Carbon LLC covers the supply of graphite for the deployment of X-energy's Xe-100 small modular reactor, with a contract to ...

X-Energy has signed a $100M deal with SGL Carbon for the supply of graphite for its Xe-100 small modular reactor.

Graphite is a key structural component in some of the world's oldest nuclear reactors and many of the next-generation designs being built today. But it also condenses and swells in response to ...

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 ...

Corrosion by liquid sodium appears to be complex and affects a variety of materials in different ways. I think I've found a good overview, but I've only skimmed it so far. See this collection of ...