As POWER has reported, Kairos’s KP-FHR comprises a graphite-moderated, “randomly packed” pebble‐bed reactor with molten fluoride salt coolant (a chemically stable molten fluoride salt ...

If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant, able to harness this futuristic clean power and generate electricity from it by the ...

US producers of a crucial material used in electric vehicle batteries have initiated a trade action seeking sharp tariff increases on Chinese graphite, arguing that Beijing’s massive state subsidies ...

Resurrecting a capability HALEU TRISO is not a new fuel type. TRISO has been proposed in graphite-based reactor designs for decades and is known to be accident tolerant. A critical experiment called ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Sydney/Tokyo | The push to loosen China’s stranglehold over the global battery supply chain has intensified after Washington ...

The Oklo reactor’s two-billion-year-old uranium ore. Ludovic Ferriere/Vienna Natural History Museum Long before humans conceptualized nuclear energy, nature had already engineered its own reactor.

Meanwhile, colleagues developed a recipe for converting either the particles or the char into graphite inside an electrochemical reactor. Project lead Edgar Lara-Curzio said the project has three ...

Then, another branch of the team developed a "recipe" to convert the byproducts into graphite inside an electrochemical reactor, according to the lab. Unlike conventional methods for creating ...

Shares in Australian synthetic graphite maker Novonix Ltd. surged after it received a conditional $755 million loan from the US Department of Energy to build a manufacturing plant in Tennessee.

Researchers are developing and improving state-of-the-art graphite production processes, verifying their economic viability and scaling them up for manufacturing. Bishnu Thapaliya demonstrates the ...

Italy’s national space agency (ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) has initiated its Selene project, which aims to develop small nuclear fission reactors to power settlements on the Moon. In 2023, the ...

(Cowboy State Daily Staff) Wyoming’s largest trona producer is moving forward with a nuclear energy technology company to install small-scale nuclear reactors to support its manufacturing facility in ...