Co-extrusion for next-gen nuclear fuel. Lightbridge Fuel is a proprietary next-generation nuclear fuel technology for ...

Lightbridge Corporation has hailed the co-extrusion demonstration of a coupon sample with uranium-zirconium alloy and ...

Japan's Federation of Electric Power Companies has announced that a total of 400 tonnes of used nuclear fuel, instead of the ...

While this latest test doesn’t make nuclear-powered rocket engines viable just yet, it’s an important step on the journey.

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

Sweden has broken ground on its final repository for spent nuclear fuel (SNF)—a milestone reached after 40 years of research and development—making it the world’s second deep geological ...

Kansai Electric Power Co. has angered Fukui prefectural assembly members for claiming to have kept its oft-broken promise to remove spent nuclear fuel accumulating at its nuclear power plants in ...

Democratic Rep. Mike Levin, along with Republican Reps. Darrell Issa and Young Kim, reintroduced the Spent Fuel ...

Energoatom National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine has received a letter from the U.S. company Westinghouse ...

The fuel was subjected to full reactor heat and hydrogen gas and kept there for 20 minutes – about what a nuclear engine would have to endure during a boost maneuver.