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

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / June 24, 2025 / General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today that it has reached another significant milestone in the development and ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency on Dec. 26 released images of nuclear fuel debris retrieved from the No. 2 reactor at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A recent accounting showed that 46 of the site’s 62 buildings have been demolished; 474 million pounds of waste have been shipped offsite; 107 million pounds of decommissioning material have been ...