When it comes to reducing carbon emissions, energy experts have developed solutions for some big challenges. Innovations in battery and charging technologies, for example, have positioned electric ...

Nuclear energy companies are trying to shrink reactors to the size of shipping containers in a bid to compete with electric batteries as a source of zero-carbon energy.

A pH-responsive inorganic membrane has been devised that acts as a gatekeeper for the transport of charged solutes into and out of its interior volume. This behaviour ...

In our world of AI-dominated algorithms, some nuclear physicists prefer to do science the old-fashioned way. And this newly developed physics-based, AI-free algorithm may be the breakthrough needed ...

The US Army is leading the push to deploy nuclear microreactors as a strategic solution to the military’s growing need for ...

The explosion in new AI capabilities is driving a related competition for more electrical power, including nuclear power. But practical and regulatory obstacles have inhibited investors. Now, the ...

A technique that combines the speed of pyrosequencing with the sensitivity of fluorescent detection may lead to faster sequencing with smaller quantities of DNA. The method described by Sims et al.

Powering a remote zinc mine located roughly 600 miles northwest of Anchorage, Alaska, is a Herculean task. Governments and industry have taken a particular interest in remote Arctic mining locations, ...

The larger the reaction vessel, the quicker products can be made – or so you might think. Microreactors show just how wrong that assumption is: in fact, they can be used to produce explosive materials ...

Chemistry in microreactors has been touted as faster, safer, and cheaper, so it's not surprising that interest in such systems continues to intensify. Microreactors typically consist of plates ...

BWX Technologies is developing tractor trailer-sized micro nuclear reactors that could illuminate a small U.S. city, run a forward operating military base, power directed energy weapons or fuel ...

Recent advances in microreactor technology are improving the application and scale at which the technology can be applied. Although continuous processing is applied in other manufacturing industries, ...