June 21, 2007 - Iran’s Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi claims, “Now we have 3,000 centrifuges and have in our warehouses 100 kilograms of enriched uranium…We also have more than 150 tons of ...

even the same fuel assemblies (which hold the fuel in place), and the same methods to control the power (control rods and boron in the coolant fluid). The Shippingport reactor was the first full-scale ...

Less fuel and emissions, more power, higher revs. EcoMotors' OPOC engine promised it all. Investors, including Bill Gates, ...

And so it is with the effort to site a DGR for both used nuclear fuel as well ... up of zirconium rods filled with small uranium pellets: the ceramic pellets are placed inside a tube made of a ...

Unit 3 of the Crystal River nuclear power plant is on an accelerated ... to the core region and consist of the control rod guide tube assemblies, upper core grid, the thermal shield, and lower ...

Two much-watched advanced nuclear fuel technology companies—Oklo and Lightbridge—will consider co-locating their commercial ...

The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day drastically cut down the travel time to Mars and beyond. The tests showed the fuel can withstand the harsh conditions of a ...

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.

Nuclear fuel rods are critical components in nuclear reactors, and their integrity is essential for safe and efficient operation. One of the significant challenges faced by these fuel rods is ...

A hands-on workshop at Idaho State University is helping train professionals to safely handle the fuels that will power the next generation of nuclear reactors.

Posiva is tasked with the responsibility of handling the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel rods at Onkalo. The first-of-its-kind geological disposal facility has been hailed as a game-changer ...