greatest share of funding that supports demonstration facilities. Moir and Teller consider the molten-salt reactor, a less developed technology, as potentially...

A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates more fissile material than it consumes. These reactors can be fueled with more-commonly available...

or a demonstration power plant (often stylized as DEMOnstration power plant), refers to a proposed class of nuclear fusion experimental reactors that...

TerraPower is an American nuclear reactor design and development engineering company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. TerraPower is developing a...

commercial nuclear reactors in the world, sorted by country, with operational status. The list only includes civilian nuclear power reactors used to generate...

projects for Chile and Indonesia. The proposed 10 MW demonstration reactor in Chile could be used to power a 20 million litre/day desalination plant. In 2018...

and tsunami, Japan had generated 30% of its electrical power from nuclear reactors and planned to increase that share to 40%. Nuclear power energy was a...

scalability. The stated power refers to the capacity of one reactor unless specified otherwise. Multi-unit complex based on the GT-MHR reactor design Urenco Group...

are known as fusion reactors. Research into fusion reactors began in the 1940s, but as of 2024, no device has reached net power, although net positive...

Agency's (IAEA) Generic Reactor Safety Review. According to SPIC, the company is building two CAP1400 reactors in a demonstration project located in the...

Deuterium Uranium) is a Canadian pressurized heavy-water reactor design used to generate electric power. The acronym refers to its deuterium oxide (heavy water)...

guarantee that the reactors will be designed, built and operated correctly. Mistakes do occur and the designers of reactors at Fukushima in Japan did not anticipate...

Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) Reactors Tōkai JRR-2 (shut down) Tōkai JRR-3 Tōkai JRR-4 Tōkai JPDR (Japan Power Demonstration Reactor, shut down) Ōarai High-temperature...

then used to power buildings or other commercial operations. The term SMR refers to the size, capacity and modular construction. Reactor type and the...

tsunami all over Japan protesters called for the abolishment of nuclear power, and the scrapping of nuclear reactors. Tokyo: a demonstration was held in the...

would start building a demonstration ACP100 small modular reactor (SMR) on the north-west side of the existing Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant by the end of...

stated purpose is scientific research, and technological demonstration of a large fusion reactor, without electricity generation. ITER's goals are to achieve...

propulsion of a ship or submarine with heat provided by a nuclear reactor. The power plant heats water to produce steam for a turbine used to turn the...

very-high-temperature reactor (VHTR) which would initially work with temperatures of 750 to 950 °C. The use of a high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor for power production...

Nuclear power in Canada is provided by 19 commercial reactors with a net capacity of 13.5 gigawatt (GW), producing a total of 95.6 terawatt-hours (TWh)...

States, nuclear power is provided by 94 commercial reactors with a net capacity of 97 gigawatts (GW), with 63 pressurized water reactors and 31 boiling...

fission-electricity generation, Japan began restarting its nuclear reactors, after safety upgrades were completed, beginning with Sendai Nuclear Power Plant. By 2015,...

Mühleberg Lucens Nuclear power in Switzerland is generated by three nuclear power plants, with a total of four operational reactors (see list below). Since...

In Europe this reactor design was called European Pressurised Reactor, and the internationalised name was Evolutionary Power Reactor, but is now simply...

Monju (もんじゅ) was a Japanese sodium-cooled fast reactor, located near the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant, Fukui Prefecture. Its name is a reference to Manjusri...

United States. Ongoing demonstrations include the High-temperature engineering test reactor in Japan, which reached full power (30 MWth) using fuel compacts...

A fast-neutron reactor (FNR) or fast-spectrum reactor or simply a fast reactor is a category of nuclear reactor in which the fission chain reaction is...

Generating electricity from fusion power remains the focus of international research. Most nuclear power plants use thermal reactors with enriched uranium in a...

(Fugen) was a prototype Japanese nuclear test reactor. Fugen was a domestic Japanese design for a demonstration Advanced Thermal Reactor. It was a heavy water...

According to the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, "by April 27 approximately 55 percent of the fuel in reactor unit 1 had melted, along with 35...