More than 440 commercial reactors generate almost 10 percent of global electricity, a carbon‑free flow that has quietly been ...

Aalo Pod XMR is a generation IV reactor, which is sodium-cooled and can be powered by enriched uranium fuel. The design means ...

What is interesting about the IMSR is that it is a purely thermal spectrum Generation IV reactor, despite using molten salt fuel. This fuel itself is standard low-enriched uranium (LEU ...

As next-generation nuclear reactors, known as Gen IV power plants, are developed, it is looking more and more likely that they will be of the molten salt variety. These plants swap out radioactive ...

Likewise, Hermes 2 is the first electricity-producing Generation IV reactor to be approved for construction by the Nuclear ...

In addition to current fast reactors construction projects, several countries are engaged in intense research and development programmes for the development of innovative, or Generation IV, fast ...

In 2023, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) completed its programmatic Vendor Design Review of the IMSR plant design, the first Generation IV reactor design to complete Canada’s CNSC ...

In Russia, Rosatom along with nuclear fuel manufacturer TVEL have announced the start of construction of the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled reactor. Like the Natrium design, this is a Generation IV fast ...

nuclear reactors and the challenges of designing future Gen IV systems, the materials community is currently re-establishing its fascination with nuclear materials. Although worldwide research ...

At Manchester we have the expertise to test materials in a range of reactor environments – including PWR, AGR, ABWR and some Generation IV reactors – and unique facilities that enable us to observe ...

Terrestrial Energy is a developer of Generation IV nuclear plants using proprietary Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) technology. IMSR technology captures the transformative operating benefits of ...