Miffed by what it described as the proliferation of substandard generators and transformers in the country with all its attendant socioeconomic and environmental consequences, the Standards ...

Section 1. Purpose. The United States led the development of civilian nuclear power through the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Reactor Testing Station (now known as Idaho National Laboratory), ...

In February 2019, at the direction of Congress, then-Energy Secretary Rick Perry launched a project to build a nuclear test reactor to enable researchers to “conduct crucial advanced [nuclear power] ...

Cold functional testing of unit 3 at the Vogtle nuclear power plant near Waynesboro, Georgia, has been completed, Georgia Power announced yesterday. The tests mark the first time the reactor systems ...

The Advanced Test Reactor at the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, is preparing to return to service after the completion of an 11-month core overhaul. The reactor - described as ...

X-energy has launched a critical 13-month test of its advanced TRISO-X nuclear fuel at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). This is the first time the company’s “fuel pebbles” will undergo irradiation ...

In July, House and Senate appropriators zeroed out funding requested by the Biden administration for the Versatile Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratories, a decision that could have disastrous ...

The Pentagon is quietly transporting a next-generation nuclear reactor across the American West, routing it from Southern California through Utah, in what amounts to a live stress test for the country ...

The development of new generations of transformers and line reactors is radically simplified and accelerated by a powerful new automated software toolbox from the Vector Fields Software product line ...

As if the U.S. grids weren’t stressed enough, AI data centers threaten to overwhelm them further with their massive energy demands. To address these challenges, researchers in Utah are entertaining ...

The results are good news for the thorium-HALEU fuel cycle, set to grow in relevance as advanced reactors grow smaller and abundant. Reading time 2 minutes Last year, a private-public collaboration ...