WASHINGTON, DC, December 21, 2001 — After an exhaustive, eight-month review of possible missions and future commercial uses for the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) research reactor ordered by Energy ...

(Updated—May 19, 2022): The Department of Energy (DOE) is poised to decide whether it will build the 300-MWth Versatile Test Reactor (VTR), a fast neutron national user facility that could provide the ...

Workers at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (RIAR) in Dimitrovgrad, Russia, have installed what they call the world’s largest multipurpose fast neutron research reactor, or MBIR, at the site.

The China Experimental Fast Reactor has been restarted and reconnected to the grid, marking its entry into its high-power operation phase. The sodium-cooled, pool-type fast reactor began a refuelling ...

Bo Feng, national technical director of DOE-NE's Fast Reactor Program and manager of Argonne’s Reactor and Fuel Cycle Analysis Group, discusses research with engineers in the METL facility. Nuclear ...