While these first-of-a-kind projects can be big and risky, they are too important for our future to fail to act,” Gates wrote ...

the preliminary stage of a demonstration reactor, encountered a spate of problems, including a sodium leak accident in 1995, and was barely operational before the decision was made in 2016 to ...

It is for these reasons that fast reactors have been under development for decades in several countries, primarily as breeders and, in recent years, also as high-level waste burners. Sodium cooled ...

Visakhapatnam: A reactor explosion occurred at Metrochem Pharma Company's facility at Parawada in Anakapalli district, around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, prompting immediate evacuation of workers.

TerraPower plans to finish construction in 2028. The reactor uses sodium as a coolant, just like Japan’s Monju prototype fast breeder reactor in Fukui Prefecture, which in 2016 was decided to be ...

An estimated 170,000 people have been evacuated from the area around a quake-damaged nuclear power station in north-east Japan that was hit by an explosion ... housing a reactor was destroyed ...