Core disruptive accidents (CDAs) in sodium-cooled fast reactors represent a severe class of events in which the integrity of the reactor core is rapidly compromised, leading to the dispersal of molten ...

June 10, 2024 TerraPower, celebrated the start of construction on the Natrium reactor demonstration project. This marks the first advanced reactor project to move from design into construction in the ...

A Washington-based company has announced contract winners for the first Natrium plant reactor enclosure system (RES). Awarded by TerraPower, the contracts are aimed at advancing the development and ...

Part of a nuclear reactor fuel rod element. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has completed a study of advanced, better performing accident tolerant fuels being developed by three U.S. companies ...

A rendering of TerraPower's Natrium Reactor. Image courtesy TerraPower Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Mitsubishi FBR Systems (MFBR), and TerraPower have expanded ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois teamed up with the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) to develop a prototype sodium-cooled nuclear fast ...