Japan's Mutsu cargo freighter made headlines when its faulty reactor shield leaked radioactive material 500 miles into its native voyage in 1974. The NS Savannah, for its part, dumped 115,000 ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KCTV) - The University of Missouri is building a second nuclear reactor to expand cancer treatment. Mizzou announced on Wednesday morning that the initiative to build the research ...

We explore the specific challenges the nuclear industry is facing and how the nuclear engineering community is increasingly addressing these challenges using virtual reactor models and a ...

the new reactor designs really look attractive from a ship propulsion point of view. But when the discussion turns to ship propulsion, inevitably the inefficiency of the NS Savannah, or the high ...

Nuclear-powered ships operate by having a nuclear reactor on board that heats water to generate ... the first commercial nuclear-powered ship, the NS Savannah, was launched in the early 1950s, ...

‘The United States demonstrated the peaceful use of nuclear energy decades ago with the NS Savannah. The concept is not only feasible ... The discussion included an overview of Generation IV reactor ...

A new reactor from Rice University is set to make the whole process easier and safer. Lithium-ion batteries are so popular, in fact, that it's predicted their demand will grow seven-fold by 2030 ...

Editor’s note: On Oct. 16, 2024, about 100 Tri-Cities area leaders and people who worked to preserve Hanford’s historic B Reactor as part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park ...

The organisation's history with maritime nuclear energy sources dates back to 1959, when the NS Savannah - the first merchant ship powered by a nuclear reactor - was approved under ABS Rules. ABS said ...

In 1959, the United States launched the nuclear-powered NS Savannah, a passenger/cargo vessel that became ... Second, the potential for a reactor accident, albeit low, must be considered. Proponents ...

(The total cost — about $47 million, or more than $473 million in today’s dollars — included $2.3 million for the reactor alone ... a website for the NS Savannah Association, a nonprofit ...