Test reactor

Nuclear Reactor
US Selects 11 Firms for Program to Fast-Track Small Nuclear Test Reactors
On August 12, 2025, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the selection of 11 companies for a pilot program to develop and test advanced nuclear reactors. The…
Nuclear Reactor
Utah to Host Nucube Test Reactor
NuCube Energy, a U.S.-based developer of advanced nuclear microreactors, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Utah San Rafael Energy La…
Hydrogen Production
Japan Eyes World First Producing Hydrogen Using Heat From Reactor
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has announced plans to produce clean hydrogen using heat from its High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) in Ibar…
Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)
ABS Unveils Floating NPP Rules
The first comprehensive rules for floating NPPs have been unveiled by American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) at a forum for nuclear industry leaders held jointly wit…
Nuclear Reactor
US Regulator Issues Environmental Assessment for Two-Unit Test Reactor
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has published its final environmental assessment (EA) and finding of no significant impact for Kairos Power's con…
Nuclear Reactor
Construction Begins on Kairos’s Fluoride Salt–Cooled Test Reactor
Workers begin construction at the Hermes site in Oak Ridge, Tenn. (Photo: Kairos Power)Earlier today, on a site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., that was formerly home to t…
Nuclear Reactor
Clean-up Completed of Pioneering ORNL Site Reactor
The Low Intensity Test Reactor, known as Building 3005, was built in 1949 as a criticality testing facility that used highly enriched fuel with water as a coola…
Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)
Kairos Seeks Construction Licence for Two-Unit Hermes Plant
Kairos Power has submitted an application to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for permission to build the Hermes 2 plant next to the Hermes molten sal…
Nuclear Technology
US DOE Begins Demolishing Low Intensity Test Reactor
The US Department of Energy (DOE) says the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its clean-up contractor, UCOR (United Cleanup Oak Ridge) have…
Nuclear Technology
Demolition of Famous US Reactor Begins
The Low Intensity Test Reactor (LITR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) became world-famous when a photographer first captured a blue glow caused by radia…
Nuclear Reactor
NRC Approves Restart of Nist Test Reactor
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has authorized the restart of a test reactor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in Gaithersburg, Md. The r…
Nuclear Reactor
DOE Formalises Test Reactor Decision
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued its Record of Decision on the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the sodium-cooled fast neutron reacto…
Nuclear Reactor
Indian Test Reactor Reaches Operation Landmark
India's fast breeder test reactor (FBTR) has reached its full 40 MWt design power level for the first time, more than 35 years since it first started operating.…
Nuclear Reactor
Construction Begins at Kudankulam 6
First concrete has been poured for the latest reactor at India's Kudankulam nuclear power plant. Work is now underway there on two pairs of Russian export react…
Nuclear Reactor
Japanese Gas-Cooled Reactor Restarts
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency has resumed operation of the High-Temperature Test Reactor in Oarai, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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Test reactor

US Selects 11 Firms for Program to Fast-Track Small Nuclear Test Reactors

Utah to Host Nucube Test Reactor

Japan Eyes World First Producing Hydrogen Using Heat From Reactor

ABS Unveils Floating NPP Rules

US Regulator Issues Environmental Assessment for Two-Unit Test Reactor

Construction Begins on Kairos’s Fluoride Salt–Cooled Test Reactor

Clean-up Completed of Pioneering ORNL Site Reactor

Kairos Seeks Construction Licence for Two-Unit Hermes Plant

US DOE Begins Demolishing Low Intensity Test Reactor

Demolition of Famous US Reactor Begins

NRC Approves Restart of Nist Test Reactor

DOE Formalises Test Reactor Decision

Indian Test Reactor Reaches Operation Landmark

Construction Begins at Kudankulam 6

Japanese Gas-Cooled Reactor Restarts