Miffed by what it described as the proliferation of substandard generators and transformers in the country with all its attendant socioeconomic and environmental consequences, the Standards ...

Section 1. Purpose. The United States led the development of civilian nuclear power through the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Reactor Testing Station (now known as Idaho National Laboratory), ...

The Advanced Test Reactor at the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, is preparing to return to service after the completion of an 11-month core overhaul. The reactor - described as ...

In February 2019, at the direction of Congress, then-Energy Secretary Rick Perry launched a project to build a nuclear test reactor to enable researchers to “conduct crucial advanced [nuclear power] ...

X-energy has launched a critical 13-month test of its advanced TRISO-X nuclear fuel at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). This is the first time the company’s “fuel pebbles” will undergo irradiation ...

In July, House and Senate appropriators zeroed out funding requested by the Biden administration for the Versatile Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratories, a decision that could have disastrous ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said it selected a sodium-cooled fast reactor design for its versatile test reactor that would be built at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). If funding is ...

As if the U.S. grids weren’t stressed enough, AI data centers threaten to overwhelm them further with their massive energy demands. To address these challenges, researchers in Utah are entertaining ...

Tests that simulate the temperatures and pressures which the reactor systems will be subjected to during normal operation have started at the demonstration high-temperature gas-cooled reactor plant ...