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Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor Being Renovated And Expected To Be Brought Back Online By 2028, All Thanks To Massive Microsoft Contract
The Three Mile Island nuclear incident is one of the most infamous examples of nuclear accidents in history, thanks to its ...
Power Engineering10h
Palisades nuclear plant plans for a 2025 comeback, a 1st in the U.S.
On the shores of Lake Michigan at the Palisades nuclear plant, Paul Schultz pushes a button to artificially trip the reactor ...
ABC News10d
Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted 13 years after Fukushima disaster is shut down again
A Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted last week for the first time in more than 13 years after it survived a massive ...
Hackaday11mon
Operate Your Own Nuclear Reactor, Virtually
If you’ve ever wanted to operate your own nuclear reactor, you probably aren’t going to get one in your backyard shop. However, thanks to the University of Manchester, you can get a simulated ...
Hackaday5y
Nuclear Reactor Simulator Is The Project Of A Lifetime
He’s done it for real. His memories of working at a Westinghouse Pressurized Water Reactor over 30 years ago are so sharp that he’s been building a nuclear reactor “simulator” running on ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle21d
The first nuclear reactor, explained
Nicknamed “Chicago Pile-1,” the world’s first nuclear reactor kicked off the Atomic Age and has a complicated legacy, including the rise of both nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. As physicists came ...
Science News22d
Tech companies want small nuclear reactors. Here’s how they’d work
To fuel the insatiable energy appetite of artificial intelligence, tech companies are going big on small nuclear reactors. Last week, both Google and Amazon announced agreements with companies ...
Forbes1y
Fourth Generation Nuclear Reactors Take A Big Step Forward
The first generation of nuclear power plants were built in the 1950s and 1960s and were based on light water reactor technology. These reactors use water as a coolant and neutron moderator ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN8d
4 US students push for next-gen nuclear reactor materials for endless power
Four Texas A&M University academics are leading the way in nuclear material research to help develop safer, more advanced ...
ABC News3d
A look at the research revealing China's work on prototype nuclear reactor to power aircraft carrier
U.S. researchers have concluded that China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor to power future aircraft carriers BANGKOK -- China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor for ...
Breakthrough at Fukushima: First Nuclear Fuel Sample Extracted from Reactor
A robot tasked with searching the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has retrieved a sample of melted nuclear fuel.