Today, the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) announced that its scientists have successfully completed the first full-scale simulation of an operating nuclear reactor.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

POCATELLO — Idaho State University last week opened a new reactor control room and simulation lab at the William M. and Karin A. Eames Advanced Technical Education and Innovation Complex. The facility ...

This image shows the individual pins in a full-core nuclear reactor simulation, one of the first ever done. Multi-lab teams use supercomputing power to make new discoveries. Two teams that include ...

The Xe-100 is a 200MWt Advanced Pebble Bed Reactor that will be deployed in Washington State in the 2028 timeframe with the support of the US DOE Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program. The Xe-100 has ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using the world's fastest supercomputer to model and simulate next-generation nuclear power plants. The premise of the ...

New research could help in boosting the efficiency of nuclear power plants in the near future. By using a combination of physics-based modeling and advanced simulations, they found the key underlying ...