Since the construction of the first commercial light water nuclear power ... A 12′ SiGa fuel assembly, demonstrating the ability to scale to full-sized fuel rods. (Credit: DoE) Now it seems ...

A US nuclear reactor has switched from Regular to Premium fuel with Southern Nuclear inserting four Lead Test Assemblies ...

More than 440 commercial reactors generate almost 10 percent of global electricity, a carbon‑free flow that has quietly been ...

Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion.

Performance and reliability of nuclear fuel are ... all operating units on fuel rod failures, including statistics, root causes and mechanisms. These studies also include analyses of fuel structural ...

The nuclear fuel cycle is the series of industrial processes that turns uranium into electricity. Claire Maden takes a look at the steps that make up the cycle, the major players and the potential ...

BWXT Enrichment Operations, LLC plans to invest $45 million into a new Oak Ridge facility, creating at least 60 jobs.

Following inspection in 2024, the rods were reloaded for a further fifth cycle, according to a press release. The fuel assembly was fabricated at Framatome’s fabrication facility in Lingen ...

Nuclear fuel consists of rods, a few metres long and containing uranium, which are gathered into an assembly to act as a fuel element. The PGET instrument can produce an exact cross-section image of ...

Peter Hosemann, Head of Nuclear Reactor Design and Materials of NANO Nuclear. “This very precise component will be heated conventionally using linear heaters as fuel rod surrogates. The test ...