Westinghouse Electric Company and CORE POWER have announced a cooperative agreement to jointly design and develop a floating nuclear power plant (FNPP). The companies will use Westinghouse Electric ...

University of Southern California scientists have proven that the Earth's inner core is backtracking—slowing down—in relation to the planet's surface, as shown in new research published in Nature. New ...

Throughout history, the idea of misplacing a nuclear weapon may sound like a plot twist in an espionage novel. The United States has experienced more than a handful of such incidents. Known as “Broken ...

Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, with its eight CANDU pressurized heavy-water reactors, is an ideal plant to use the ANEEL advanced nuclear fuel. It’s located near Kincardine, Ontario on the eastern ...

A first-of-its-kind nuclear reactor that will use a 3D-printed core, advanced materials, and integrated sensors and controls is on track for completion by 2023. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, work is ...

Shipping nuclear propulsion start-up CORE POWER, which in November of last year announced a deal with Westinghouse for design and development of floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs), has hired an ...

The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a 3D-printed nuclear reactor core prototype, with the ultimate goal of the Transformational Challenge Reactor (TCR) ...

The University of Wyoming will receive a $300,000 award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to support the establishment of a nuclear chemistry core facility on campus. The award is part of $6.3 ...

Russian-owned JSC Akkuyu Nuclear has announced delivery of the core melt trap for unit 2 of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant to the construction site in Mersin Province, Turkey. The company describes ...

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westinghouse Electric Company and CORE POWER today announced the formalization of a cooperative agreement for the design and development of a floating nuclear ...

A ceremony has been held to mark the start of work on installing the core catcher for unit 3 of the El Dabaa nuclear power plant which is being built in Egypt. (Image: Rosatom) The core catcher (also ...