A team of researchersÌýfrom NASA and Los Alamos National LaboratoryÌýhave demonstrated a new reactor conceptÌýthat combines a Stirling engine with modern heat pipe cooling technologyÌýto provideÌýa powerÌýsource for future space missions.
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A team of researchersÌýfrom NASA and Los Alamos National LaboratoryÌýhave demonstrated a new reactor conceptÌýthat combines a Stirling engine with modern heat pipe cooling technologyÌýto provideÌýa powerÌýsource for future space missions._36x48.jpg "mPower cutaway (BandW) 36x48")
The Babcock and Wilcox mPower small modular reactor (SMR) has been selected as the winner of a US government program intended to help accelerate the pace at which this new class of power plant is brought to market.
NuScale Power has enlisted engineering company Curtiss-Wright to design the control rod drive mechanismsÌýfor its proposed small modular reactor (SMR).
The US nuclear energy industry appears confident that President Barack Obama's second term in the White House will oversee a continued central role for the nuclear industry at the heart of the country's energy policies.
Hurricane Sandy has caused widespread power losses up and down the eastern seaboard of the USA, but the region's nuclear plants were prepared to weather the storm.