Some, like the Japanese JT-60SA and the European JET, focus on producing plasmas at very high temperatures for short durations. JT-60SA is also testing new reactor designs that could eventually be ...

Fusion reactor needs to operate at very high temperatures and high enough densities of fuel to achieve its goal, produce ...

Even so MSRs and similar high-temperature reactors are likely to become a common sight over the next years, with larger reactor types on the scale of traditional LWRs (1+ GWe) an interesting ...

The Hermes Project. Fast forward to the 21st century, and Oak Ridge is once again a focal point for nuclear advancement.

However, if salt is used as a primary coolant rather than water, it can absorb huge amounts of heat at atmospheric pressure, enabling reactors using this technology to operate at very high ...

The passive cooling system of the proposed Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) has successfully passed simulation verification tests, the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has announced. In ...

ORNL researchers working in a program to develop the high-temperature ... reactor to ensure its safe operation. “Our reactors, which rely on what is called functional containment, are designed to have ...

high-temperature reactor design, differing from conventional light-water reactors. "Generation IV nuclear power plant designs are revolutionary, in that they are planned to use a very different ...

Fusion reactors require very high temperatures (many times hotter than the sun) because they have to operate at much lower pressures than is found inside the cores of stars. The core of the actual ...