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Rolls-Royce turns to aseismic bearings to de-risk small nuclear reactor during earthquakes

Rolls-Royce has ordered aseismic bearings pedestal demonstrator to incorporate it in its small modular reactor design to make ...
Yahoo

NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon – a space lawyer explains why, and what the law has to say

The stark landscape of the Moon as viewed by the Apollo 12 astronauts on their return to Earth. NASA/The Planetary Society The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, ...
WGN Radio

NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon. Here’s what the law has to say

(The Conversation) – The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power. While it ...
Opinion

Small nuclear reactors are worth the wait

Over 50 small reactors generating up to 500 megawatts of electricity have been built over the past half-century. Their median build time has been eight years. By contrast, large reactors have been ...
MIT Technology Review

How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.