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Israel and Iran have opened a new chapter in their long history of conflict when Israel launched a major attack with strikes early Friday on Tehran.
An Iranian missile struck the Soroka Medical Centre in south Israel causing 'extensive damage' with multiple people injured, and the hospital forced to close to all but life-threatening cases ...
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US-based TerraPower has signed a memorandum of understanding with China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) to develop its travelling wave reactor (TWR). The MOU was signed in Seattle on 22 September ...
Initially developed in the 1950s, the travelling wave reactor (TWR) design resurfaced in the early 1990s, and was later patented by Intellectual Ventures, the company from which TerraPower was spun ...
Based on the presented simulation results, it is possible to obtain an estimate of the thermal power emitted in the reactor from the active zone from natural uranium in the form of a cylinder with a ...
Article citations More>> Rusov, V.D., Tarasov, V.A. and Vaschenko, V.N. (2013) Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor. Publishing Group “A.C.C.”, Kyiv, 156 р. has been cited by the following article: TITLE: ...
The proposed heat pipe cooled traveling wave reactor (HPTWR) consists of an ignition fuel region with 14% 235 U enrichment and a breeding fuel region with 8.5% 235 U enrichment, which can continuously ...
This paper describes an experimental study for NO/sub x/ decomposition using repetitive streamer discharges produced by reciprocal traveling wave voltage pulse from a direct-grounded coaxial cable.
Plenty of hurdles The Natrium fast reactor uses high-temperature liquid sodium as its reactor coolant instead of water and employs high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) as its nuclear fuel. HALEU is ...
Bill Gates's next-level nuclear power station is small, cheap, efficient and fast to build. It also has a built-in, on-demand energy storage system 10 times bigger than the biggest grid-scale ...