Explore India's pursuit of fast-breeder nuclear reactors, focusing on criticality, efficiency, and long-term energy security.

As part of a continuing series, Talha Burki looks at the issues at the core of medicine in nuclear power plants.

India’s most advanced reactor has set the country on a path towards potentially cutting its dependence on uranium.

A technological marvel called Small Modular Reactors, or SMRs, is emerging from the shadows. Imagine miniature nuclear power plants, capable of producing up to 300 MWE, whilst also being mass-produced ...

This includes a mastery over the pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR) technology, or reactors that use natural uranium as ...

India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained a historic milestone. The 500 MWe reactor, which produces ...

In the high desert of Idaho, history was made 75 years ago, when the world's first nuclear power plant generated usable ...

Just before Artemis II began its historic slingshot around the moon, Jared Isaacman, the recently confirmed NASA ...

Nuclear energy is one of the cleanest and most reliable energy sources, and one technology attracting attention is the ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...