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Research & Innovation
Natrium, explained: TerraPower's reactor with a built-in battery
Natrium pairs a 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor with molten-salt storage that boosts output to 500 MWe — and it's now under construction in Wyoming.
Fusion, explained: three ways to bottle a star
Tokamaks, stellarators and laser-driven inertial confinement are three routes to the same prize: net energy from fusing light atoms. Here is how they differ.
US opens DOME, a first-of-a-kind microreactor test bed
Built inside the repurposed EBR-II containment at Idaho National Laboratory, the DOME test bed gives microreactor developers a fast track to fission testing.
