Today, the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) announced that its scientists have successfully completed the first full-scale simulation of an operating nuclear reactor.

The liquid-fueled molten salt reactors such as the MSRE and the TMSR-LF have distinguishing dynamic features compared with solid-fueled reactors, such that conventional system analysis codes are not ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using the world's fastest supercomputer to model and simulate next-generation nuclear power plants. The premise of the ...