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A Safety Improvement For the Pebble Bed Nuclear Reactor

June 16, 2021 | 2 Comments

Texas A&M University researchers have developed a model that can better predict the physical phenomenon inside of very-high-temperature pebble-bed reactors. Reactors have improved exponentially in terms of safety, sustainability and efficiency. Unlike the light-water reactors at Fukushima, which had liquid coolant and uranium fuel, the current generation of reactors has a variety of coolant options, […]

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A Big Nuclear Breakthrough

July 3, 2012 | 1 Comment

Dr. Stephen Liddle in the School of Chemistry at The University of Nottingham leads a team that seems to be first to create a stable version of a uranium ‘trophy molecule’, a compound that has eluded scientists for decades. The research paper has been published in the journal Science.  The Nottingham chemistry team has shown […]

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