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The World's ONLY Natural Nuclear Reactor

Would you believe that a natural nuclear reactor exists? Scientists thought it was impossible! But it's real. The Oklo ...
How do you control a nuclear space propulsion system? Very carefully. To help with this, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...
Dr. Ayodeji Alajo, an associate professor of nuclear engineering and radiation science at Missouri S&T, is leading the ...
Switzerland's ABB and Sweden's Blykalla have joined their forces to develop a small lead-cooled nuclear reactor for maritime ...
For decades, nuclear fusion has been viewed as the ultimate energy source—clean, powerful, and practically limitless. Most ...
Westinghouse Electric Company is working with a Finnish energy company, Fortum Corporation, to deploy an advanced AP1000 reactor. According to a Westinghouse press release, the two companies signed an ...
The Golden Chest Mine in the far northern reaches of Idaho seems an unlikely staging ground for clean power innovation. It is a throwback to an earlier era, the last hard rock gold mine in Idaho, ...
The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that was sent to NASA officials in July and obtained by NPR. It’s an ambitious target ...
The Trump administration is pushing efforts to place a nuclear reactor on the moon to power a future human base. A newly revealed directive from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy outlines a goal to ...
NASA has set a 2030 deadline to build a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon. It’s an ambitious but potentially achievable goal that could transform space exploration, experts tell WIRED.
Could it work on the lunar surface ... And in this case, infrastructure is influence. A lunar nuclear reactor may sound ...
Nuclearn has developed AI tools to help reactor operators automate routine paperwork. "Think of it as the junior employee," ...