FRM-II currently uses fuel enriched to over 95% uranium-235 to generate its dense neutron flux - and such high-enriched uranium (HEU) is seen as a nuclear proliferation risk. TUM has agreed with the ...

Planning rules will be ripped up to make it easier to build new nuclear reactors and create thousands of highly skilled jobs, the government has announced. The reforms are the latest in a series ...

A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way, an astronomer has told Sky News. Dr David Whitehouse said the measure could be taken against a ...

VIETNAM formally approved a nuclear power development plan with the aim of having a reactor online in the next decade, an ambitious strategy to lift energy security and meet aggressive economic growth ...

This is a huge nuclear fusion research facility, analysts say, and it could be a sign China is leaping ahead in the quest to harness this futuristic energy source. It could also mean they are ...

HANOI (Bloomberg): Vietnam formally approved a nuclear power development plan with the aim of having a reactor online in the next decade, an ambitious strategy to lift energy security and meet ...

BRUSSELS, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Belgium's new government is looking to double its nuclear power capacity from 4 gigawatts to 8 GW by building new reactors, Energy Minister Mathieu Bihet was quoted as ...

MSRs also generate less high-level waste, and their design does not require solid fuel, eliminating the need for building and disposing of it. These reactors can adapt to a variety of nuclear fuel ...

If successful, it could be a powerful example of a circular manufacturing process — in which plastic is used and reprocessed over ... it produces is turned into fuel or other chemicals, rather ...

Most plastic products, by contrast, can be reprocessed only once — if at ... processes — particularly those that turn waste into fuel, like most so-called “chemical recycling” — from ...

Amtrak continues to see post-pandemic growth in the Northwest, with ridership rising 41% last year on its route between Portland and Vancouver, British Columbia. The Amtrak Cascades route carried ...

Nuclear physics is the study of the protons and neutrons at the centre of an atom and the interactions that hold them together in a space just a few femtometres (10-15 metres) across. Example ...