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 ...

UK-headquartered innovative reactor developer Newcleo has commissioned Nuclear Transport Solutions to carry out feasibility studies in several areas of nuclear transport requirements, including for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...