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.

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

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 ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) confirmed that it reached another significant milestone in its Silicon ...

Korea's KHNP has loaded the first HIPER16 ATF into Hanul NPP's Unit 6, targeting increased safety margins and global ...

In the world of nuclear energy, the Idaho National Laboratory this week accomplished a first-of-its-kind test. The experiment proved successful and could ultimately decrease the amount of waste ...

More than 10,000 protesters converged on the plant's gate in 1981 to try to prevent fuel rods from being loaded into the two reactor cores. They said a major earthquake in the seismically active ...

The fuel rods themselves are generally made out of a zirconium alloy, which has the beneficial properties of having a high melting point, high resistance to chemical corrosion, vibrations and impacts.

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