The thorniest issue is the highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. SONGS officials say that it’s stored safely in sealed ...

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.

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.

The fuel rod was removed in 1979 from the Vermont Yankee reactor, which is shut down for refueling and maintenance. Remote-control cameras will be used to search a spent-fuel pool on the ...

Your 12-foot-long fuel rod full of those uranium pellet, lasts about six years in a reactor, until the fission process uses that uranium fuel up. It becomes something they call "spent fuel." ...

About 6 percent of the fuel rods in reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant are made from so-called "mixed-oxide" (MOX) fuel, which contains plutonium as well as uranium.

A spent fuel rod being lowered into a cask for storage. Image: (Tepco) Tepco is not planning to extract molten nuclear fuel until at least 2021. Progress has been slow but steady.

Developments in fuel rod design by Lightbridge may lead to a 17% increase in output of current nuclear power plants, once safety concerns have been allayed. Type your search and press Enter.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian scientists have produced the nation's first nuclear fuel rod, a feat of engineering the West has doubted Tehran capable of, the country's nuclear agency said Sunday.

The rods were produced after Iran failed to come to an agreement with Western nations on purchasing nuclear fuel for the reactor, which is used for nuclear medical treatment. Forwarding the News ...