This Safety Guide provides recommendations on how to meet the requirements established in IAEA Safety Standards Series No. SSR-2/1 (Rev. 1) in relation to the reactor coolant system and associated ...

The MARVEL microreactor project at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), US, has successfully concluded its three-month coolant system testing campaign. In spring 2020, INL engineers, led by Carlo Parisi, ...

Tests that simulate the temperatures and pressures which the reactor systems will be subjected to during normal operation have started at the demonstration high-temperature gas-cooled reactor plant ...

The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant four years ago has drawn attention to the environmental impact that the release of fission products from nuclear fuels can have in the event ...

Alternative ways of powering, cooling, and constructing reactors could help get more nuclear energy on the grid. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To ...