General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft of the future. The trials verify that the fuel can survive ...

General Atomics has completed several key tests for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) reactor technology at NASA’s MSFC.

Spent nuclear fuel is being sunk into a storage pool at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture in 2020. (Provided by Kansai Electric Power Co.) ...

Spent nuclear fuel which is generated in the operation of nuclear reactors needs to be safely managed following its removal from the reactor core. On-site power reactor storage pools were designed on ...