On Monday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, leader of a state where bureaucracy moves like paperwork through a glue factory, stunned everyone by announcing plans to build America’s first major ...

Experimental fuel capsules being staged at the Advanced Test Reactor. Source: Clean Core Thorium Energy A ...

SiGA is a silicon carbide (SiC) composite material that forms the basis for the development of nuclear reactor fuel rods that ...

When most people hear the word uranium, they think of mushroom clouds, Cold War standoffs or the glowing green rods from ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today that it has reached another significant milestone in the development and testing of its SiGA® Silicon Carbide (SiC) nuclear fuel ...

One incident involved an 'elevated level' of nitrogen gas, which can cause asphyxiation, at the plant’s Magnox facility. The ...

The destruction of uranium enrichment sites that support Iran's nuclear program would not likely have severe environmental ...

Before it is used, nuclear fuel exists as uranium oxide pellets that are sealed within zirconium tubes, which are themselves bundled together. These bundles of fuel rods are about 12 to 16 feet long ...

Iran is known to have enriched around 400 kilograms of its uranium stock to around 60 percent. It’s a relatively easy step to bring that up to weapons-grade if Tehran wanted. For now, however, the ...

Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) crews have successfully transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel baskets into safer, long-term storage ...

A demonstration accident-resistant nuclear fuel assembly has been loaded into the core of unit 6 of the Hanul nuclear power ...

Idaho National Lab partners with Clean Core to test a new thorium-based nuclear fuel that may improve safety, cut waste, and ...