experimental nuclear reactors

In 1986, Nemtsov, then a young and brilliant radio-physicist, began leading protests against the Soviet government's plans to install an experimental nuclear reactor in Gorky. His intellect and charm distinguished Nemtsov within Russia's burgeoning liberal movement, and he won a seat in the Supreme ...

As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor. For a sustained, controlled chain reaction, each fission must ...

As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor. For a sustained, controlled chain reaction, each fission must ...

There were no reports of damage to its two nuclear reactors, but the incident at the city's Baltic Shipyard, in the middle of Russia's second biggest city, renewed environmentalists' concerns over the experimental nuclear reactor baring barge. A release from the emergency services ministry reported the fire ...

It's been more than half a century since an experimental nuclear reactor at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory near Los Angeles suffered a partial nuclear meltdown, spewing radiation over a period of weeks. Private industry and government agencies followed that with repeated chemical spills, accidental ...

The Monju power plant in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, is one of two experimental nuclear reactors set up in the 1980s in Japan. The fast breeder reactor was designed to use the plutonium created as spent fuel by other reactors, thus maintaining a reliable power source for Japan's future. However, the ...

Japan pulls plug on experimental nuclear reactor. It was hoped that the so-called "dream reactor" would burn a plutonium-uranium mix that would yield more plutonium. But the dream remains elusive and the plant faced too costly upgrades in the post-Fukushima era. Japan Kernkraftwerk Monju ...

Japan has scrapped plans to generate electricity at a multi-billion dollar experimental nuclear reactor, the government said today, giving up on the decades-old project due to spiralling costs. Once touted as a “dream reactor,” the Monju facility was designed to generate more fuel than it consumes via ...

THE decommissioning of Harwell's former nuclear research station has been mired in controversy after a High Court judge ruled the job had been awarded to the wrong company. The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is facing potential damages in the hundreds of millions after Justice Peter Fraser ...

On December 2, 1942, the world's first nuclear reactor was fired up in a subterranean squash court. But instead of a top-secret, sterile laboratory miles from civilization, the reactor went “critical” for the first time in a space directly beneath rows of football field bleachers at the heavily populated University of ...