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 ...

Two much-watched advanced nuclear fuel technology companies ... assembled into fuel bundles, and shipped to power plants. While modernization has resulted in efforts to produce slightly higher ...

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 ...

A tiny amount of melted nuclear fuel was retrieved for the first time the other day from one of the reactors at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. General Atomics and NASA have successfully tested a new type of nuclear thermal ...