One class of these so-called Generation IV or Gen IV power plants is molten salt reactors, which replace enriched uranium or plutonium fuel rods and ... et al went for a graphite reactor instead.

CEO Mike Laufer says that his reactors don't use fuel rods; they use fuel pebbles, about the size of golf balls – mostly graphite, with tiny kernels of uranium. And each pebble has as much power ...

The operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant said it retrieved a tiny amount of melted fuel from one of the reactors that ... acts like a fishing rod, grasped the debris ...

They will play an important role in providing nuclear fuel for our eVinci microreactor ... “Urenco is committed to powering the nuclear reactors of today and tomorrow with enriched uranium ...

Lew’s combines old-school fiberglass in the butt of the rod and blends it into a carbon graphite tip. The fiberglass has a slower, more forgiving flex to load up properly on the cast and ...

President Donald Trump’s tariff threats could raise the price of uranium used to fuel US nuclear reactors, which could have ripple effects on a tenuous nuclear renaissance spurred by the growth ...

The Pilot Demonstration Engineering Centre for decommissioning of NPP units channel-type reactor units, ODITs RBMK (Opitno Demonstratsionnii Inzhenernii Tsentr RBMK) is installing ultrasonic liquid ...

The role of redox and structure on grain growth in Mn-doped UO 2 Mn-doped UO 2 is a promising nuclear fuel, and is predicted to undergo favourable grain growth during service. This study uses ...

In order to produce fuel for certain types of nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons, uranium has to be "enriched" in the U-235 isotope, which is responsible for nuclear fission. During the enrichment ...

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has conducted the first safety test in more than 20 years on a high burnup fast reactor fuel at its Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) facility. The test is part of a ...