Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.
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.) ...
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 ...
we have supplied to the individual units almost 900 linear step drives and more than 30 sections of compact storage racks for the wet storage of spent nuclear fuel in the spent fuel pool.” ...
The U.S. agency in charge of nuclear security is commissioning a study on the proliferation risks of a more-enriched uranium ...
in accordance with Taiwan's nuclear phase-out policy, but was forced to close six months earlier owing to a lack of storage in the unit's used fuel pool. Unit 2 of the plant - also a 985 MWe BWR - was ...
About 880 tons of highly radioactive melted nuclear fuel remains inside ... TEPCO finished removing all spent fuel rods from a cooling pool at No. 4 reactor in 2014 and from the No. 3 reactor ...