"Explained so well my caveman brain can understand." PhD student debunks common false claim about nuclear energy: 'This ...

A demonstration accident-resistant nuclear fuel assembly has been loaded into the core of unit 6 of the Hanul nuclear power ...

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 ...

FUKUI--Fukui Governor Tatsuji Sugimoto on Oct. 13 approved Kansai Electric Power Co.’s revised plan on storing spent nuclear fuel, drawing outrage from prefectural assembly members.

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.

Schematic view of PWR fuel assembly (Credit: Mitsubishi Nuclear Fuel) The fuel rods themselves are generally made out of a zirconium alloy, ...

Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley, a co-chair of the Spent Fuel Solutions coalition, writes of an urgent need to remove spent nuclear fuel from the San Onofre plant south of Orange County.

For those concerned about Iran becoming a nuclear-armed state, it’s essential to understand not just what the attacks by the ...

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.” ...

Framatome, the France-based nuclear power company, said its Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (EATF) assembly reached a milestone, with the group on July 25 ...

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.

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.