Storage of used nuclear fuel in the U.S. increases by about 2,000 metric tons per year; currently approximately 70,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel are being stored on site in 33 states.

If the used fuel is treated as waste, and disposed of, this is known as an "open" fuel cycle. It can also be reprocessed to recover uranium and other fissile materials which can be reused in what is ...

The students will be introduced to nuclear burnup code such as ORIGEN. At the conclusion of the course students will be tasked to design and evaluate an aspect of the nuclear cycle that has been ...

In early 2011, the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the CSIS Proliferation Prevention Program launched the New Approaches to the Fuel Cycle (NAFC) project to develop an integrated approach to nuclear ...

The idea of leaving rapidly decaying nuclear waste is an important advantage. I’m not superstitious about fission power, but having waste products that last 100,000 years is a serious problem ...

Rosatom revealed that at power unit No. 6 of Novovoronezh NPP, a batch of fifth-generation nuclear fuel assemblies TVS-5 has been loaded into the VVER-1200 reactor core for the first time.

Since the start of operations in the mid-1960s, the La Hague plant has safely processed over 23 000 tonnes of spent fuel — enough to power France’s nuclear fleet for 14 years. Used fuel assemblies ...

The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Cost Calculator estimates the full cost of electricity produced by three configurations of the nuclear fuel cycle. This calculator is the first generally accessible model to ...

Global Nuclear Fuel Market attained a market value of USD 12.13 billion in 2023 which is expected to reach USD 20.21 billion in 2030. This report provides a complete analysis o for the historical ...

In the first of a two-part special report from the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle 2025 conference held this month in Canada, Claire Maden reports on the opportunities and challenges facing players across ...

The fuel cycle of a nuclear power plant is divided into three main stages: Front-end; Fuel use in the reactor; Back-end; Front-End Fuel Cycle. Uranium is distributed in the earth’s crust and ...