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12-year-old builds nuclear fusion reactor, gets visit from FBI

India Today 22 Mar 2025
yearold builds nuclear fusion reactor gets visit from FBI ... .
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Scientists eye self-repairing material to protect fusion reactors from heat damage

Interesting Engineering 22 Mar 2025
“The main research facility in the DIFFER PSI-Lab is Magnum-PSI, a linear plasma generator that allows us to study plasma-wall interactions in a fusion reactor,” said the DIFFER ... DIFFER addresses challenge of fusion reactor materials.
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Rolls-Royce’s 10-foot lunar nuclear reactor seeks partners for deployment

Interesting Engineering 21 Mar 2025
The company plans to send its nuclear micro-reactor to the lunar surface by the early 2030s, as revealed by Rolls-Royce Assistant Chief Engineer for Space Katie Jarman ... Rolls-Royce nuclear micro-reactor.
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Trump’s demand that US could take over Ukraine’s reactors is not credible

The Guardian 20 Mar 2025
Of the four, the most significant, and the one that Trump has repeatedly referred to in the past week, is the vast, six-reactor Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant ... ....
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MC&A and safety in advanced reactors in focus (ANS - American Nuclear Society)

Public Technologies 20 Mar 2025
... Policy Division recently hosted a webinar on updating material control and accounting (MC&A) and security regulations for the evolving field of advanced reactors.
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US-built fusion reactor structure completes 60-foot-tall magnet ‘exoskeleton’ for ITER

Interesting Engineering 20 Mar 2025
Fusion is inching closer to reality with continuous development in this field as the United States Domestic Agency for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) recently completed ...
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First-ever neutron-based nuclear reaction measurement to advance reactor design

Interesting Engineering 20 Mar 2025
“The study provides new insight into how the universe’s heaviest elements are forged – and could even drive advancements in nuclear reactor physics,” said the team in a press release ... To benefit astrophysics and nuclear reactor designs.
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First concrete poured for the foundation of the reactor building of unit 4 at Leningrad NPP-2 (State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM)

Public Technologies 20 Mar 2025
) First concrete poured for the foundation of the reactor building of unit 4 at Leningrad NPP-2 ... On March 20, 2025, the first concrete was poured for the foundation of the reactor building at Unit 4 of Leningrad NPP-2.
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US scientists harness laser to track molten salt nuclear reactor chemistry at 662°F

Interesting Engineering 20 Mar 2025
This innovative approach is expected to advance the development of molten salt reactors for energy production ... and the fuel in a molten salt reactor ... Exploring LIBS technology for molten salt reactor.
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Russia tests next-gen nuclear fuel to boost 600 MWe reactor’s efficiency, cut waste

Interesting Engineering 19 Mar 2025
Fission reactors can keep up ... Nuclear fission reactors struggle with two key problems ... This approach, known as spectral regulation, sets the VVER-S reactor apart from other reactors in the VVER series.
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Chinese nuclear scientists identify flaw in Nasa’s lunar reactor design

South China Morning Post 18 Mar 2025
China could power ahead of the US in the moon race thanks to a few structural differences in its lunar base reactor, engineers say ... .
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Japan begins dismantling a commercial nuclear reactor for 1st time

Yeni Ṣafak 18 Mar 2025
Dismantling process is regarded as 3rd of 4th phases in decommissioning of nuclear facilities .
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