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

Performance and reliability of nuclear fuel ... plant down times or increased levels of occupational exposure. Whether already operating NPPs or embarking on a nuclear power programme, Member States ...

Managing the spent fuel arising from nuclear power plants until its disposal is an important step of the nuclear fuel cycle and constitutes the so-called back-end. While one third of the spent fuel ...

Since the construction of the first commercial light water nuclear power plants (LWR) the design of their fuel rods hasn’t changed significantly. Mechanically robust and corrosion-resistant ...

(Maxim Shemetov/Reuters) Both reactors on the Akademik Lomonosov have reloaded the uranium fuel elements for the first time since the floating nuclear power plant was put into operation in 2020.

Bangor University scientists think that the way to go big with nuclear power is to, in fact, go small. Their tiny nuclear fuel pellets called triso fuel are said to be the size of poppy seeds and ...

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 went into a triple meltdown following the 2011 ...