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Idaho National Laboratory is hosting STEM Scholars, CyberCore and Clean Energy summer camp programs. These...
Career-focused event will also include Idaho State University, College of Eastern Idaho, Idaho Department of...
Idaho National Laboratory and Colorado School of Mines have agreed to expand their joint efforts...
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Two teams from Rigby High School competed March 29 in the first Pathways Student Challenge,...
Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-1999) was an influential American chemist most renowned for discovering plutonium in...
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INL is working with developers, private industry, regulators, universities and others to develop, demonstrate, test and validate this new generation of microreactors. As part of its research mission, INL is also helping develop new fuels for microreactor designs, many of which will use low-enriched uranium with higher concentrations of uranium-235 than the fuel used in today’s commercial power reactors.
A small modular reactor (SMR) is a nuclear fission reactor that features factory-built-and-assembled modules in a variety of configurations and electricity outputs. About 1/10 to 1/4 the size of a traditional nuclear energy plant, SMRs feature compact, simplified designs with advanced safety features. Small modular reactors are envisioned to vary in size according to configuration.
The line between fact and fiction is often blurred when historical events are dramatized. Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the nation’s nuclear energy research laboratory, employs numerous experts with extensive knowledge of what happened, why and what the industry learned. In fact, the laboratory played a role in the analysis of what happened within the damaged reactor’s core.
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