Interesting Engineering

China’s newest nuclear reactor has reached one of its biggest milestones

As Changjiang Unit 3 progresses, it moves one step closer to joining China's rapidly growing fleet of commercial nuclear ...
MIT Technology Review

PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a ...
Hackaday

Using Your Own RBMK Reactor Control Center At Home

To give people the most intimate RBMK experience, the [Chornobyl Family] has been working tirelessly at not only replicating ...
Interesting Engineering

PUR-1: America’s first fully digital nuclear reactor begins testing for advanced action

Purdue’s unique, fully digital research reactor is validating the technologies needed to deploy small modular reactors ...
Purdue University

At the nation’s only all-digital nuclear reactor, engineers conduct the first experiments of their kind in the U.S.

Purdue University Reactor Number One has specific features that no other reactor in the U.S. has. Purdue’s reactor is ...
Wilson Center

Bringing Seoul into the Non-Proliferation Regime

In this Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP) Working Paper, Se Young Jang challenges the common narrative that US pressure forced South Korea to ratify the NPT in 1975. Using ...
Wilson Center

Revisiting History: North Korea and Nuclear Weapons

For most American observers, the North Korea (DPRK) nuclear issue begins in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as leaders in Pyongyang, faced with the loss of their Cold War alliance relationships and ...