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Nuclear Reactor

Nuclear Reactor

Nuclear Power: From bomb to energy

Nuclear Power: From bomb to energy

As Bangladesh enters the nuclear era with Rooppur, it joins a world still grappling with the legacy of atomic destruction and the urgency of clean energy. The question is no longer whether nuclear...

Steam rises from a cooling tower of the Electricite de France (EDF) nuclear power station in Civaux, France, 8 October, 2021. Photo: Reuters

India’s big leap In fast breeder nuclear reactors

India’s Atomic Energy Minister Jitendra Singh said India has achieved a significant milestone by developing an indigenously designed 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at the Kalpakkam power plant in Tamil Nadu. Photo: Collected

India to become 2nd to operate commercial fast breeder reactor after Russia

India’s indigenous 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor in Tamil Nadu. Photo: Collected

India's indigenous nuclear reactor attains criticality, Modi calls the feat a major boost

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and US Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Michael Duffey on board a C-17 cargo plane that transported Valar Atomics' Ward nuclear microreactor from March Air Force Base in California to Hill Air Force Base in Utah, at the Hill Air Force Base in Utah, US, February 15, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Valerie Volcovici

US conducts first air transport of nuclear microreactor in bid to show technology's viability

Meta seeks nuclear power developers for reactors to start in early 2030s

The fourth generation Shidaowan plant in China's northern Shandong province is designed to use fuel more efficiently and improve its economics, safety and environmental footprint. Photo: Collected

China launches world's first fourth-generation nuclear reactor

A North Korean nuclear plant is seen before demolishing a cooling tower (R) in Yongbyon, in this photo taken June 27, 2008 and released by Kyodo. North Korea is to restart the mothballed Yongbyon nuclear reactor that has been closed since 2007 in a move that could produce more plutonium for nuclear weapons as well as for domestic electricity production, its KCNA news agency said on April 2, 2013. As well as restarting the 5MW reactor at Yongbyon, the North's only known source of plutonium for its nuclear weapons programme, KCNA said a uranium enrichment plant would also be put back into operation, a move that could give it a second path to the bomb. Picture taken June 27, 2008. Mandatory Credit. REUTERS/Kyodo

North Korea halts nuclear reactor, likely to extract bomb fuel

A view of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna's Ishwardi upazila. Photo: Archives

Rosatom to build a research reactor in Bangladesh

Kansai Electric Power’s Mihama nuclear power station in Mihama Town, Fukui prefecture, on 23 May. Photographer: Naoki Ueda/Yomiuri Shimbun/AP Photo

Japan allows nuclear plants to operate beyond 60 years

The Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao, Taiwan.Photographer: Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images

Taiwan plans to keep its nuclear power plants on emergency standby

Number of nuclear reactors under construction

Number of nuclear reactors under construction

A rendering of the entrance of a Small Modular Reactor facility that Rolls-Royce SMR hopes to have operational by the end of the decade is seen in this handout render provided by Rolls-Royce SMR on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. A global search for alternative sources to Russian energy during the war in Ukraine has refocused attention on smaller, easier-to-build nuclear power stations that proponents say they could provide a cheaper, more efficient alternative to older model mega-plants but detractors warn of heightened risks including the disposal of highly radioactive wave and the specter of nuclear weapons proliferation.

With risks, small nuclear reactors emerge as energy option