Korea's KHNP has loaded the first HIPER16 ATF into Hanul NPP's Unit 6, targeting increased safety margins and global ...

Idaho National Lab partners with Clean Core to test a new thorium-based nuclear fuel that may improve safety, cut waste, and ...

A demonstration accident-resistant nuclear fuel assembly has been loaded into the core of unit 6 of the Hanul nuclear power ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is inviting companies to propose experiments using its Microreactor Application Research ...

Nobody should doubt that the US military can strike targets that were designed to be unreachable,” wrote Caroline Zier of the Atlantic Council following the overnight raid in which American B-2 ...

President Donald Trump said Saturday the United States completed a "very successful" strike against Iranian nuclear sites at ...

A US nuclear reactor has switched from Regular to Premium fuel with Southern Nuclear inserting four Lead Test Assemblies (LTAs) into the Vogtle Unit 2 reactor in Waynesboro, Georgia that contains ...

Hot fuel rods are taken from the reactor and stored in pools to cool for roughly 5 years, according to Dobken, and then bundled together in groups of 37, referred to as fuel assemblies, which are ...

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 ...

Fuel assembly bottom nozzle fabricated using additive manufacturing (Image: Westinghouse) According to the company, debris-wearing action on the fuel rod cladding - known as debris fretting - is the ...

Electricite de France SA is increasing the iron content of cladding for nuclear fuel rods to address a long-standing issue with corrosion, as a French newspaper reported that a reactor in China is ...