A project led by researchers from Argonne National Laboratory on transmutation technologies for used nuclear fuel has been awarded a grant from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research ...

Japan on Saturday took journalists on a tour of Fukushima's Reactor No. 4 and declared the situation manageable. Despite concerns of an earthquake that could ruin the pool cooling down radioactive ...

The first container has been filled with long-lived low- and intermediate-level waste from the used fuel pools of unit 3 at Belgium's Doel nuclear power plant, which was shut down in September 2022 ...

What happens if you fall into one of those pools where they store the highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel rods?

After fuel rods are used in the reactor to create electricity, they are moved to the used nuclear fuel pool for a few months before they are sealed in secure casks at Energy Northwest north of ...

Three trial uranium-plutonium MOX fuel assemblies containing americium-241 and neptunium-237 have completed three fuel ...

As global nuclear ambitions surge, the industry’s fuel supply chain faces critical gaps. Can advanced fuels like HALEU (high-assay low-enriched uranium) and TRISO (TRi-structural ISOtropic particle ...

As we look ahead to the next decades, especially in light of the first global stock-take at COP28 and the declaration made by more than 30 countries to work towards tripling global nuclear energy ...