US team develops scalable, safe nuclear fuel recycling using advanced tech to cut waste and boost energy recovery.

The company has been fabricating PWR fuel since 1989 and PHWR fuel since 1998. Its manufacturing capacity enables it to meet the fuel requirements of Korea's entire fleet of reactors. KNF has also ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) confirmed that it reached another significant milestone in its Silicon ...

A typical nuclear fuel assembly contains about 500 kg of uranium (1,100 lbs.). A large plant has about 155 (or more) assemblies, thus about 175,000 lbs./plant.

Ten years after use, the surface of a spent fuel assembly releases 10,000 rem/hr of radiation, far greater than the fatal whole-body dose for humans of 500 rem received all at once.” ...

Westinghouse Electric Company recently completed the first VVER fuel reload deliveries to Temelín and Dukovany Nuclear Power Plants (NPP) in the Czech Republic, marking a key milestone in ČEZ’s ...

A prototype fuel assembly for use in China's Hualong One reactor design has completed the first fuel cycle irradiation test. Construction of three Hualong One units has already begun in China. The ...

After spending months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant, a robot has delivered a small sample of melted nuclear fuel.

A robot at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant delivered a tiny sample of melted nuclear fuel in what officials said was the start of the cleanup.