The zirconium fuel rods at Fukushima Reactor 4 fuel pool will not spontaneously explode on contact with air. For it is zirconium powder that is explosive, not zirconium solids or tubes.

TOKYO – Workers started the difficult task Monday of removing nuclear fuel rods from a heavily-damaged reactor building at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Japan. It's the first ...

SiGA is a silicon carbide (SiC) composite material that forms the basis for the development of nuclear reactor fuel rods that ...

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / June 24, 2025 / General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today ...

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 reactor and kept in a separate cooling pool nearby.

When a fuel rod is made, enriched uranium is baked into inch-long pellets and inserted into metal tubes. In the belly of a reactor, the atoms of this fuel split apart, releasing tremendous amounts ...

Spent fuel rods are placed in a steel canister typically capable of holding 32 fuel assemblies and the lid is welded in place. The canisters weigh up to 40 tons fully loaded.

This brings the number of leaking fuel rods to four since the latest refueling cycle started in April 1999 at the North Perry Village plant. The Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp.-owned plant decreased … ...

But radioactive fuel rods still sit -- slowly cooling off -- in the reactor's cooling pond, which is 22 feet wide, 28 feet long, and up to 36 feet deep.

Uranium, fuel rod casing found in Fukushima nuclear debris By SHOKO TAMAKI/ Staff Writer. December 27, 2024 at 17:24 JST ...

A 12′ SiGa fuel assembly, demonstrating the ability to scale to full-sized fuel rods. (Credit: DoE) Now it seems that silicon carbide (SiC) ...