The nuclear fuel cycle encompasses the processes involved in the production, use, and disposal of nuclear fuel. Understanding the economics and management of this cycle is crucial for the ...

The BN-800 fast reactor is the only fast neutron reactor in the world generating electricity for a national grid on a sizable ...

TWG-NFCO is one of the IAEA Advisory Groups to DDG-NE which focuses on nuclear fuel cycle options with an emphasis on spent fuel management (storage and reprocessing & recycling), innovative fuel ...

At the same time, uranium-233, the primary fission material produced from thorium, is harder to use for weapons purposes ... Kailash Agarwal, a Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Specialist at the ...

The proposed project would require a 1 million-square-foot nuclear fuel cycle facility to be built ... of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program. Now the site employs about ...

His research focuses on the monitoring and verification of international agreements, the reconstruction of past nuclear weapon activities (nuclear archaeology), and the impact of emerging technologies ...

Roughly 92 pounds of weapons-grade uranium is enough to create one nuclear bomb, reported Reuters. "One can gather from the first statements from President Trump and some others in the new ...

the fuel cycle requires change of uranium elements every 3 to 5 years. This January marked that the plant had delivered its first one billion kilowatt-hours, Rosatom reports. The state nuclear ...

The U.S. agency in charge of nuclear security is commissioning a study on the proliferation risks of a more-enriched uranium ...

The reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear-power plant in the southern Iranian city of Bushehr in 2010. (Majid Asgaripour/AP) Iran’s nuclear program is advanced although it lacks atomic-weapons ...