Lead-Cooled Fast Reactors (LFRs) are emerging as a promising technology in the realm of nuclear energy, particularly as part of the fourth generation of reactors. One critical safety concern ...

Sodium cooled fast reactors, lead and lead–bismuth cooled fast reactors and gas cooled fast reactors are currently being developed at national and international levels in compliance with higher ...

Swedish nuclear energy company Blykalla (formerly Leadcold), has selected Sweden-based construction company NCC as the ...

Like the Natrium design, this is a Generation IV fast neutron reactor, but it uses lead as coolant instead of sodium, which is beneficial in terms of heat transfer capacity as it has a higher ...

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Russia’s state atomic energy corporation – Rosatom – has announced the beginning of pilot operations of its nuclear fuel fabrication/refabrication facility or ...

As nuclear reactors popped up ever faster during the 1950s and 1960s, the worry about running out of uranium fuel became ever more present, which led to increased R&D in so-called fast reactors ...

as a company to play the core role in developing a next-generation nuclear reactor with a demonstration sodium-cooled fast reactor slated to begin operation in the 2040s. The government ...

Newcleo aims to build so-called lead-cooled fast reactors (LFR) that will allow the use of Slovakian spent nuclear fuel as fuel, offering a sustainable solution to deal with nuclear waste and ...

rather than the temperatures reached by the star-hot plasma stream in a tokamak or stellarator fusion reactor. Scientists enlist liquid metals, like the lithium-lead alloy used for the exposure ...