The first batch of 56 mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies has been shipped to Beloyarsk 4 as Russia's first-of-a-kind BN-800 fast reactor prepares to start up. The first batch of 56 ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Orano has signed a contract with Japan's NFI (Nuclear Fuel Industries Ltd) for the fabrication of 32 MOX fuel assemblies for the Takahama 3 and 4 reactors ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: The Orano group has signed two MOX fuel manufacturing contracts with the Japanese industrial company MHI (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.) for a total of 64 ...

Testing has begun on VVER-type fuel elements with uranium-plutonium mixed-oxide fuel in the MIR research reactor. Based on the results of irradiation and tests, scientists "intend to substantiate the ...

All fuel has been removed from Germany’s Brokdorf nuclear plant, marking a key milestone in decommissioning after its 2021 ...

On a tract of government land along the Savannah River in South Carolina, an army of workers is building one of the nation’s most ambitious nuclear enterprises in decades: a plant that aims to ...

Suggested Citation: "Appendix H: Reprocessing and Recycling Practices in Other Countries." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Merits and Viability of Different Nuclear ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration plans to make available about 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to U.S. power companies as a potential fuel for ...

Some outside experts are particularly concerned about high levels of plutonium in one of the damaged Japanese reactors. About 6 percent of the fuel rods in reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi ...

The Fukushima nuclear disaster, already casting a long shadow over the nuclear industry, has claimed another victim. Last week, Britain's Nuclear Decommiss ioning Authority (NDA) announced that it ...