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

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

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

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 ...

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / June 24, 2025 / General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today ...

Nuclear fuel suppliers have begun stepping up to the challenge. Enrichment giant Urenco (Figure 1) is investing billions of dollars to deliver HALEU enrichment capabilities in the UK and U.S. by ...

Since the arrival of nuclear power in the 1950s, more than 400 reactors in 31 countries have produced about 430,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel, and until now no one has developed a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fuel—enriched to nearly 6% uranium-235—exceeds the typical 3% to 5% enrichment used in commercial nuclear power plants and is now being tested under real-world operating conditions.

Excavating equipment at the site of the Onkalo repository project, the world’s first permanent spent-nuclear-fuel storage facility, deep in granite bedrock in Finland, in 2017.