The automated facility has already made mockup nuclear fuel bundles for the BREST-OD-300 core design, as per Rosatom.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Thursday evening, as Westinghouse prepares to embark on an expansion of its Hopkins uranium fuel pellet facility, company officials invited the public to an engagement event to learn ...

The unit for fabrication/refabrication of nuclear fuel for the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast neutron reactor has been put ...

For a country such as Canada, which has no military-related nuclear waste, this fuel waste is undoubtedly the most toxic ...

Uranium prices have hit an all-time high, with artificial intelligence data centers driving increased demand for nuclear fuel ...

A unique technology for the fabrication of uranium-plutonium nitride fuel was developed in Russia by Rosatom scientists. The trial assemblies with experimental MNUP fuel elements were successfully ...

the fuel is in the form of ceramic plugs about the size of a thimble. These contain enriched uranium, which is high in the fissionable isotope uranium-235. These pellets are placed inside metal ...

Industry pressured to build new conversion facilities to cover end of US import waiver and impact of Ukraine war ...

Figure 1: An SEM micrograph showing the high-burn-up structure developed at the pellet rim in the fuel of a commercial nuclear reactor of rod average burn-up of 97.8 MWd per kgHM. So, more ...