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

Developed by a joint research team from China's Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, the system is based on cryogenic pellet ...

FORSMARK, Sweden, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Sweden started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste ...

A Tri-Cities area union is encouraging members to support a deal that could lead to a $4.5 billion nuclear fuel production facility in Richland. Western States Carpenters Local Union 59 asked its ...

The company has signed a contract with Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant to conduct safety analysis for licensing a new nuclear fuel assembly design for Kozloduy unit 6. Westinghouse President of Nuclear ...

Uranium fuel used in nuclear power plants is enriched with special centrifuges in a process that takes three to five years. Russian companies hold a roughly 40% global market share, leading in the ...

A lot of those in the nuclear community wince when spent fuel is referred to as "waste." As you point out, it is quite valuable. After a year, the bulk of radiation comes from Cesium 137 and ...

All nuclear fission reactors generate radioactive waste, some of which will be highly hazardous for many generations (up to hundreds of thousands of years). This is true even for those reactor ...

This latest permit modification request to test engineered fuel pellets from Convergen Energy is one step in this process.” Plastic is a global problem with few easy solutions. Worldwide ...

all these new nuclear power plant projects are going to require nuclear fuel to run on. And that's where today's story begins. Image source: Getty Images. In broad outlines, the nuclear fuel ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday that uranium has been detected in nuclear fuel debris extracted from one of the three meltdown-hit reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings ...

That same year, President Trump issued a presidential memorandum to establish the United States Nuclear Fuel Working Group. It was a meaningful acknowledgment that there are national security ...