Pebble bed nuclear reactors are still in the development phase and have yet to be placed into operation in any nation, but these reactors promise to eliminate many of the roadblocks that have ...

Trickle-bed reactors (TBRs) represent a critical technology in the chemical process industry, combining a packed bed of catalyst with cocurrent downflow of gas and liquid. The interplay between ...

Radiant Nuclear might not be a household name in nuclear energy. But they might be by the time they roll out their Kaleidos microreactor.

This is a free public event. The meeting room at the UT Resource Center, 1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike, will open at 11:15 a.m. Oct ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will review Kairos Power’s construction permit application (CPA) for its Hermes non-power demonstration reactor, which the firm has proposed to build at the ...

Specialist flow chemistry firm Vapourtec has recently launched their high temperature packed bed reactor which will open up 'exciting opportunities' for a host of new types of reaction. The modular ...

The second reactor of the High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor-Pebble-bed Module at the Shidaowan plant in China’s Shandong province has reached criticality for the first time, China Huaneng has ...

Here is an update on advanced molten salt reactors and pebble bed reactors. For the past 60 years, the world has had water and pressurized water reactors which follow the same principle as a coal ...

When one of the largest modern earthquakes struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the nuclear reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi automatically shut down, as designed. The emergency systems, which would have ...