It's been more than three years since the Fukushima Daiichi power plant melted down, and despite nearly unlimited interest from the public we still have virtually no idea what's going on in there.

Idaho National Laboratory researchers have built the first microreactor control system in decades, replacing the traditional sliding control rods found in conventional nuclear plants with a set of ...

High burnup fuel rods, manufactured by Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF, a GE Vernova-led joint venture with Hitachi, Ltd.) have been delivered to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Pacific Northwest ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)—the company that runs the Fukushima nuclear plants—says that 70% of the fuel rods have been damaged on the reactor 1 and 33% have been damaged on reactor 2. “The ...

High-burnup fuel rods, manufactured by GE Vernova’s Nuclear Fuel business, Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF), have been delivered to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) ...

Engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have reached a critical milestone in the development of the MARVEL microreactor. They have successfully assembled and tested a novel Reactivity Control ...

Unlike fossil fuels, nuclear fuel does not undergo combustion — a chemical reaction with oxygen that produces heat and emissions. Instead, it transforms at the atomic level, making it a powerful and ...

Iran began loading nuclear fuel rods into the core of its first nuclear power plant Tuesday, bringing the facility a step closer to producing electricity, Iranian state television reported. The start ...

TEHRAN: Atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi declared in a report Saturday that Iran is now capable of making its own nuclear fuel plates and rods, technology the West says the Islamic republic does not ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) supports countries in managing nuclear fuel safely, securely and exclusively ...

TOKYO, March 14 (Reuters) - Nuclear fuel rods at a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear reactor are now fully exposed, Jiji news agency said, quoting the plant's operator, Tokyo Eletcric Power Co . The ...