Lightbridge Corporation has hailed the co-extrusion demonstration of a coupon sample with uranium-zirconium alloy and cladding at Idaho National Laboratory as a significant milestone in the ...

Japan's Federation of Electric Power Companies has announced that a total of 400 tonnes of used nuclear fuel, instead of the ...

Since the construction of the first commercial light water nuclear power plants (LWR ... A 12′ SiGa fuel assembly, demonstrating the ability to scale to full-sized fuel rods.

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

Nuclear fuel consists of rods, a few meters long and containing uranium, which are gathered into an assembly to act as a fuel element. The PGET instrument can produce an exact cross-section image ...

Kansai Electric Power Co. has angered Fukui prefectural assembly members for claiming to have kept its oft-broken promise to remove spent nuclear fuel accumulating at its nuclear power plants in ...

The fuel was subjected to full reactor heat and hydrogen gas and kept there for 20 minutes – about what a nuclear engine would have to endure during a boost maneuver.

The first of a three-stage site selection process for the final disposal facility for high-level radioactive waste from spent nuclear fuel ... to the nine-member assembly on Oct. 3.

To ensure the Ninh Thuan nuclear power plant is operational within five years, the government proposes bypassing traditional ...

Energoatom National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine has received a letter from the U.S. company Westinghouse ...

The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day drastically cut down the travel time to Mars and beyond. The tests showed the fuel can withstand the harsh conditions of a ...