Pebble bed nuclear reactors are still in the development phase and have yet to be placed into operation in any nation, but these reactors promise to eliminate many of the roadblocks that have ...

Norwegian researchers used thin layers of microbes in a reactor to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into pipeline grade ...

Amazon has unveiled detailed plans and renderings for the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, an initial 320-MW small modular ...

Trickle-bed reactors (TBRs) represent a critical technology in the chemical process industry, combining a packed bed of catalyst with cocurrent downflow of gas and liquid. The interplay between ...

Specialist flow chemistry firm Vapourtec has recently launched their high temperature packed bed reactor which will open up 'exciting opportunities' for a host of new types of reaction. The modular ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will review Kairos Power’s construction permit application (CPA) for its Hermes non-power demonstration reactor, which the firm has proposed to build at the ...

The US Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Kairos Power have announced a new agreement to build Kairos' Hermes low-power demonstration molten-salt cooled, pebble-bed reactor at the East Tennessee ...

The second reactor of the High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor-Pebble-bed Module at the Shidaowan plant in China’s Shandong province has reached criticality for the first time, China Huaneng has ...

Here is an update on advanced molten salt reactors and pebble bed reactors. For the past 60 years, the world has had water and pressurized water reactors which follow the same principle as a coal ...

Norwegian scientists have engineered a process using specialized bacteria to convert industrial waste gases, carbon dioxide ...

When one of the largest modern earthquakes struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the nuclear reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi automatically shut down, as designed. The emergency systems, which would have ...