Fundamentally, we are not addressing the harms of nuclear weapons, which keep growing. Spending on “modernizing” the nuclear ...

Idaho National Lab partners with Clean Core to test a new thorium-based nuclear fuel that may improve safety, cut waste, and ...

SiGA is a silicon carbide (SiC) composite material that forms the basis for the development of nuclear reactor fuel rods that ...

Utah and nuclear company Valar Atomics “will be conducting research to verify the safety of nuclear technologies,” said a spokesperson for the state’s energy office.

Orano has said the ambitious U.S. goal to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050 – which would require an even larger increase in domestic fuel production – will require massive investments ...

US team develops scalable, safe nuclear fuel recycling using advanced tech to cut waste and boost energy recovery.

In March, Finland successfully completed the first test of its encapsulation plant, which, if finished, will become the world’s first permanent underground storage facility for radioactive waste.

If you look at the existing light water reactors, for which one fuel pin is about equivalent to one of the pebble balls, the failure rates 25 years ago were somewhere between 1×10-5 and 1×10-6 ...

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory have developed a new method of simulating what happens to a nuclear fuel pin when it overheats, using a newly developed ...

LYNCHBURG, VA – A Lynchburg business that handles nuclear fuel production for the U.S. Navy could face punishment for an apparent safety violation. A hearing today focused on an issue reported ...

Commercial nuclear reactors typically operate on fuel that is between 3% and 5% enriched uranium 235, the main fissile isotope that produces energy during a chain reaction, the DOE said.