Nuclear power may be the answer to our energy problems, but if that's true, why are we tossing out the fuel rods when they ...
Nuclear energy in the West took another step forward as the first privately developed, non-light-water reactor to go critical ...
Coupling a power uprate with burnup extension—or how long fuel can produce power before being replaced—allows fuel to operate ...
As the U.S. looks to revive its stagnant nuclear industry, a group of companies is racing to realize the promise of a ...
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it has begun removing fuel rod assemblies from a storage pool ...
On January 3, 1961, the small Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One (SL-1) exploded at the Idaho National Engineering ...
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A fingertip-sized pellet of nuclear fuel holds about as much energy as a ton of coal
A single ceramic cylinder of uranium dioxide, small enough to rest on a fingertip, contains roughly the same thermal energy ...
The Windscale Pile No. 1 operated for seven years—until a runaway fire released radioactive fallout.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced on April 23 that it had removed a sample of melted nuclear fuel from the No. 2 reactor at ...
Japan on Monday marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts. Nearly 20,000 ...
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