A prototype control room for Babcock & Wilcox's (B&W) mPower small modular reactor (SMR) will enable testing the man-machine interface and allow operators to be trained in advance of the reactor's deployment.
A team of researchersÌýfrom NASA and Los Alamos National LaboratoryÌýhave demonstrated a new reactor conceptÌýthat combines a Stirling engine with modern heat pipe cooling technologyÌýto provideÌýa powerÌýsource for future space missions.
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All twenty of Canada's nuclear power reactors are on line now that Point Lepreau has been reconnected to the grid after refurbishment.
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The UK energy minister has asked nuclear regulators to begin discussions over Generic Design AssessmentÌýfor Hitachi-GE's Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR). The design has been proposed for new units at the Wylfa and Oldbury sites.
A team of researchersÌýfrom NASA and Los Alamos National LaboratoryÌýhave demonstrated a new reactor conceptÌýthat combines a Stirling engine with modern heat pipe cooling technologyÌýto provideÌýa powerÌýsource for future space missions._36x48.jpg "mPower cutaway (BandW) 36x48")
The Babcock and Wilcox mPower small modular reactor (SMR) has been selected as the winner of a US government program intended to help accelerate the pace at which this new class of power plant is brought to market._72x48.jpg "Kiriyenko and Zhvachkin, September 2012 (Rosatom) 72x48")
An experimental lead-cooled nuclear reactor will be built at the Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC). If successful, the small BREST-300 unit could be the first of a new wave of Russian fast reactors.