The uranium fuel that Plant Vogtle used was enriched above 5%, which was a first for commercial reactors in the USA.

A demonstration accident-resistant nuclear fuel assembly has been loaded into the core of unit 6 of the Hanul nuclear power ...

For example, nuclear submarines use Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) fuel enriched to 20 to 93% U₂₃₅ to U₂₃₈. The latter is so high it, put simply, gets into the weapons-grade enrichment ...

The more highly enriched fuel could extend nuclear operations cycles up to 24 months, allow for greater energy output and create less wasted over the reactor's lifetime. The enriched pellets are ...

April 10 (UPI) --For the first time, nuclear fuel enriched above 5% will be irradiated in a commercial U.S. reactor, the Department of Energy announced Thursday. "The higher enrichment levels ...

For decades, the U.S. government has been staring down a growing problem: It doesn’t have a permanent site to dispose of used nuclear fuel. Finland, however, is about to be the first country ...

The world’s commercial nuclear power plants, 95% of which are water-cooled, have generally relied on a mature front-end supply chain for low-enriched uranium oxide (UO 2) pellet fuel.

TVEL President Natalya Nikipelova was recently shown the innovative technology during a visit to VNIINM. She was shown areas for developing technology for manufacturing fuel pellets, melting and ...

The new fuel includes uranium, the fuel assemblies, and also the enrichment process originating from Western sources. Fortum's two nuclear reactors in Loviisa account for around 10% of total power ...

Irradiated fuel assemblies—essentially bundles of fuel rods with zirconium alloy cladding sheathing uranium dioxide fuel pellets—that have been removed from a nuclear reactor (spent fuel) generate a ...

New U.S. funding to boost domestic nuclear fuel production is a historic step but the world's nuclear consumers must also shift supply chains to meet the goal of loosening Russia's grip on the ...

There are different ways of creating energy from fusion, but at NIF, scientists fire an array of nearly 200 lasers at a pellet of hydrogen fuel inside a diamond capsule the size of a peppercorn ...