China has begun operations of the world’s first fourth-generation nuclear reactor that uses gas for cooling unlike conventional power plants that use pressurised water. The power plant built in ...

Alternative ways of powering, cooling, and constructing reactors could help get more nuclear energy on the grid. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To ...

Gas‐cooled reactors, particularly those utilising helium as a coolant, rely on natural convection and associated heat transfer processes to maintain safe and efficient operational temperatures. In ...