Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a ...

Fast Breeders Want To Close The Fuel Cycle The Superphénix reactor in France is one of a handful of operational fast-neutron reactor designs. One of the primary forms of waste from a typical ...

which led to increased R&D in so-called fast reactors, which in the fast-breeder reactor (FBR) configuration can use uranium fuel significantly more efficiently by using fast neutrons to change ...

As an improvisation, by using thorium irradiated along with HALEU in the PHWRs at scale, the spent fuel produced can then be ...

India’s indigenous nuclear reactor prototype and abundant thorium reserves hold the key to the country’s future energy security.

The Breeder Reactor The realization of cheap atomic power hinges on our ability to build reactors that make more fissionable material than they burn. Some details of our first attempts to build one ...

Construction of Dounreay began 70 years ago in March 1955. It still employs some 1400 people directly, with the focus now on ...

US-based nuclear technology company TerraPower and engineering company KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) have formed a ...

India will manufacture five indigenous small modular reactors with private sector involvement to boost its nuclear energy ...

Five fast reactors are now in operation: two operating reactors (BN-600 and BN-800) and one test reactor (BOR-60) in Russia, India’s Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) and the China Experimental Fast ...

TerraPower’s reactor will use liquid sodium as a cooling agent such as the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor, which Japan decided to decommission after a series of accidents. Japan can ...

Sharing the plan with Free Press, he said that AERB was getting ready for second stage test of of 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR). He was in Indore to inaugurate exhibition at RRCAT.