COVERT, MI – The long-anticipated restart of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant took a major step forward this fall as new ...

Palisades Nuclear Plant receives 68 new fuel assemblies as it moves toward becoming the first shuttered U.S. nuclear facility to restart operations.

The video above is from Aug. 26, 2025. COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The Palisades Nuclear Plant in Southwest Michigan has ...

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 zirconium ...

Flow-induced vibration (FIV) poses a substantial challenge in nuclear reactor design, particularly in the context of fuel rod assemblies. These vibrations arise from the complex fluid–structure ...

Four lead test assemblies supplied by Westinghouse featuring 3D-printed bottom nozzles have been used at Southern Nuclear's Farley nuclear power plant in Alabama. Westinghouse says the components ...

Nuclear fuel rods that work more efficiently, last much longer, and minimize nuclear waste may soon help generate more sustainable energy sources. Interesting Engineering shared the latest development ...

The Fuel Division of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, has manufactured and accepted a new type of nuclear fuel assembly, designated OS-5. The assembly is designed for use in ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company has examined two unused fuel assemblies from the fuel storage pool at unit 4 of the Fukushima Daiichi plant and found no significant damage. A further 200 unused ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power has begun removing spent nuclear fuel rods from a second building at the wrecked Fukushima plant, using remote-controlled cranes to lift hundreds of radioactive ...

Located along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Covert, Palisades first opened in December 1971 before Entergy closed the plant ...