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Nov. 21, 2022 —Small modular nuclear reactors, which offer greater flexibility and lower upfront cost than large nuclear reactors, have both some advantages and disadvantages when it comes to nuclear waste ...
July 12, 2021 —的long-theorized neutron-clustering英孚fect in nuclear reactors has been demonstrated, which could improve reactor safety and create more accurate simulations, according to a new ...
May 21, 2021 —When one of the largest modern earthquakes struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the nuclear reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi automatically shut down, as designed. The emergency systems, which would have ...
July 14, 2020 —Small amounts of plutonium (Pu) were released from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) reactors into the environment during the site's 2011 nuclear disaster. However, the ...
Mar. 4, 2021 —Researchers have recently shown superior performance of a new oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) alloy they developed for use in both fission and fusion ...
Nov. 8, 2021 —New research could help in boosting the efficiency of nuclear power plants in the near future. By using a combination of physics-based modeling and advanced simulations, they found the key underlying ...
Apr. 21, 2022 —Technetium-99m is the world's most commonly used medical radioisotope, but regularly suffers from supply chain shortages, threatening the ability of doctors to diagnose a raft of ailments. But ...
Jan. 25, 2022 —Decommissioning and clean-up are ongoing at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP); however, many difficult problems remain unaddressed. Chief amongst these problems is the retrieval and ...
July 22, 2022 —Researchers have come up with a novel way to study the thermodynamic properties of molten salts, which are used in many nuclear and solar energy ...
Apr. 10, 2023 —A new study shows that if U.S. nuclear power plants are retired, the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas to fill the energy gap could cause more than 5,000 premature ...