Rolls-Royce turns to aseismic bearings to de-risk small nuclear reactor during earthquakes

Rolls-Royce has ordered aseismic bearings pedestal demonstrator to incorporate it in its small modular reactor design to make ...
Nuclear Engineering International

KRONOS MMR campus reactor planned

NANO Nuclear and UIUC have signed a MOU to develop and deploy the KRONOS MMR as an on-campus research reactor.

newcleo achieves important milestone with nuclear safety program submission to French Nuclear Regulator

ASNR’s recommendations. PARIS, Jan. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- newcleo (the “Company”), a European developer of innovative ...
EurekAlert!

Revolutionary algorithm optimizes nuclear reactor radiation shielding design

Reactor radiation-shielding optimization methods are proposed by combining many-objective evolutionary algorithms with particle-transport calculation software that can optimize the reactor primary ...
POWER Magazine

Understanding TerraPower’s Natrium Reactor Design and Demonstration Project Progress

In the proverbial shadow of the Naughton Power Plant, a station in Kemmerer, Wyoming, that will stop burning coal at the end of this year, TerraPower is constructing what it calls “the only advanced, ...
Interesting Engineering

How nuclear propulsion shaped early interstellar vehicle design

The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.
WLRN

NASA plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Here's what that means

The Trump administration is accelerating plans to place a nuclear reactor on the moon to power a base for humans. The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by acting ...