Ultimately, the two countries agreed to kick the issue down the road to 2021 when a joint 10-year INL-Argonne-Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute study on the technical and economic “feasibility” ...

Earlier that year, the Federal Government had provided 50.5 million Canadian dollars to Moltex Energy, a company exploring a nuclear reactor design fueled with plutonium. The linkage to nuclear ...

Lithuania's State Enterprise Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant is to collaborate with France-headquartered innovative reactor ...

Konstantin Vergazov, TVEL's senior vice-president for Science, Technology and Quality (Image: TVEL) In an exclusive interview with World Nuclear News, Konstantin Vergazov, TVEL's senior vice-president ...

China is poised to test a thorium-powered nuclear reactor in September, the world’s first since 1969. The theory is that this new molten-salt technology will be “safer” and “greener ...

The Bushehr reactor is designed to produce electricity, not bomb-grade plutonium. And compared to production reactors and uranium enrichment facilities, such nuclear power reactors fueled with ...

Iran is "busy redesigning" a planned research reactor to sharply cut its potential output of plutonium, a senior Iranian official said in comments that seemed to address a thorny issue in ...

There are four countries in the world that currently have operating fast breeder nuclear reactors: China, Japan, India and Russia. That total is down from nine countries, including the U.S., that ...