The algorithm is grounded in math and physics and allows a nuclear microreactor to automatically control its thermal power.

A new physics-based algorithm clears a path toward nuclear microreactors that can autonomously adjust power output based on ...

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BT and Toshiba have deployed an 'unhackable' quantum network that uses streams of photons to encrypt sensitive communications. A trial of the network, which is the first of its kind in the UK, will ...

Two decades after the Chernobyl accident, Tony Goddard believes that nuclear power must continue to be used to generate electricity Exactly 20 years ago this month, on 21 April 1986, workers at the ...

Scientists shined a little light, literally, on the perplexing processes that govern atoms, in a new experiment that showed the effect of bouncing one photon of light off an atom. Atoms and particles ...

In physics, power is the rate at which energy is transferred, used, or transformed. The unit of power is the joule per second (J/s), known as the watt (in honor of James Watt, the eighteenth-century ...

More than 600 PhD students from across Scotland entered the SUPA Graduate School this year It’s a healthy time for physics in Scotland, with more and more PhD students opting to pursue postgraduate ...

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Scientists in the United States have come up with a physics-based algorithm that could one day make it possible for nuclear ...