A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...

The DOE's Argonne National Laboratory has launched its Activated Materials Lab to study radiation effects in nuclear reactor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four Texas A&M University academics are leading the way in nuclear material research to help develop safer, more advanced reactors ...

Researchers have found that untreated salts can create major challenges for molten salt reactors.

Before they can ever safely power up, future nuclear reactors will need to be designed and built from innovative, well-tested materials. Three Texas A&M Ph.D. students and one postdoctoral researcher ...

Few scientific fields display more breadth and depth than nuclear materials—a topic that deals with almost everything that touches on nuclear reactions. Scientists coming from many diverse disciplines ...

There was a very scary story out of Georgia today after two Armenian men pleaded guilty during a secret trial to smuggling highly enriched uranium into the former Soviet state and trying to sell it to ...

Iran claims it possesses 460kg of 60% enriched uranium, enough to build nuclear weapons in a few years. Notably, Iran would have needed at least two years to actually make a nuclear bomb.

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: At the World Nuclear Exhibition (WNE), the leading international event for the civil nuclear industry, the Orano group and Sintermat, a company specialized in ...

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency has warned of "urgency" in the push for a diplomatic agreement to avert a war between the United States and Iran, citing the risk presented by ...