The sand smothers the exposed reactor, squelching that deadly smoke plume. And the boron, ... So, dump enough boron onto the exposed reactor No. 4 core, the theory went, ...

Further testing is on the way. Scientists announce surprising results after testing futuristic 'Holy Grail' nuclear facility: ...

On April 26, 1896, the industrial city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine was changed forever. Located just 16.5 km from the city ...

NANO Nuclear Energy Inc has assembled the first reactor core hardware of its ZEUS solid core battery reactor for initial non-nuclear testing. The fuel element being prepared for testing (Image: NANO ...

Because of the intensity of radiation, a human could spend only 90 seconds in the damaged core, even while wearing protective gear. First, they constructed an exact duplicate of the reactor nearby.

Zap’s reactor uses neither lasers nor magnets, unlike those of most fusion startups. The reactor core is a long, narrow cylinder. Inside its vacuum chamber (below), an electric current strips ...

It was also the first reactor ever to run on uranium-233 or U-233. Though it ran at full power for more than 13,000 hours from 1965 through 1969, the Department of Energy eventually lost interest ...

The last operating reactor at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine has been put into what is known as a cold shutdown after an external power line was restored, making it ...

The plant’s control panel and a model of the reactor core will be preserved, as well as signs, maps, and photos from the time of TMI-2’s partial meltdown in 1979. By; Rachel McDevitt, StateImpact ...

The lone reactor that was still operating at Europe’s largest nuclear plant was shut down because of the threat to its water supply. The reactor had been helping supply energy to the plant ...