TOKYO, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Three of the spent fuel assembliesdue to be carefully plucked from the crippled Japanese nuclearplant at Fukushima in a hazardous year-long operation weredamaged even before ...

(Reuters) — The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is preparing to remove 400 tonnes of highly irradiated spent fuel from a damaged reactor building, a dangerous operation that has ...

Moving rods of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) to interim storage or a geologic repository requires road or rail travel. Although a heavy shielding cask protects the rods, long distance transportation ...

Once a bundle of uranium fuel rods has powered a nuclear reactor for a few years, pulling it out does not end its story, since what comes out the other side remains dangerously radioactive and ...

During a nuclear reaction, fuel rods generate a tremendous amount of heat. After most of the fuel has been used, the rods are removed from the... Explainer: What Are Spent Fuel Rods? Some of the ...

A nuclear engineer reacts to a chilling what-if scenario: swimming in a nuclear spent fuel pool. This video explains what spent fuel pools are, how radiation behaves in water, what shielding actually ...

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 ...

As workers at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant scrambled to prevent a meltdown of cores of several reactors on Tuesday, a new problem emerged: the failure of cooling systems for several pools ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- North Korea says it has turned the plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima atomic plant removed 400 tonnes of spent uranium fuel from a damaged reactor building, the first of four sets of used rods to be removed in ...