To make sure buildings and infrastructure are increasingly earthquake-safe, engineers must understand how seismic activity affects different structures. A new era in large-scale earthquake…
In China's remote northwest Gansu province, Chinese scientists successfully designed, and built, an experimental thorium-powered molten salt reactor—and they're about to power it up.
Initially, 2024…
A tiny town in the leading US coal-mining state Wyoming is set to become the home of an experimental nuclear power project supported by Bill Gates.The new sodium nuclear power plant is to be located…
China has completed construction of an experimental thorium reactor that could greatly increase the number of people who can benefit from clean nuclear energy.
Basics of the split: Nuclear…
China is slated to commission an experimental nuclear reactor this month that could revolutionize the nuclear power industry.Instead of uranium, the reactor is operated with thorium, a weakly…
August 21, 2021 11:20 PMNoticeable
from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
An experimental nuclear fusion reactor that generates energy by discharging plasma Wendelstein 7-XIt was…
Engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California may have brought us to the threshold of using a star's internal process to power our world by extracting a record breaking 10…