Light water reactors (LWRs) are the most common WCRs worldwide and are ... Safety systems designed into today’s advanced WCRs have passive features that do not rely on electric power and include ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

The operator of a nuclear power plant in central Japan has begun dismantling a reactor unit that is being decommissioned.

Although to most the term ‘fission reactor’ brings to mind something close to the commonly operated light-water reactors ... like a sudden shutdown at full power, demonstrating the passive ...

The company says the new agreement with Hyundai will enable rapid scaling of the small reactor program. The SMR-300 is a pressurized light-water ... and generating power would have “no ...