Amazon-backed X-energy was able to raise around 20% more money in its IPO as demand for nuclear power surges.

For the first time in decades, thorium-based nuclear fuel is headed for fabrication and reactor testing on U.S. soil. Clean ...

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 ...

In the decade after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, many countries throttled or paused their nuclear projects. As a result, many ...

US-based Clean Core Thorium Energy (CCTE) and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) have announced an ...

Fuel cladding is a barrier between the reactor coolant and nuclear fuel pellets and is essential to protecting the fuel while also ensuring the safety of a nuclear power plant. Fuel is stacked into ...

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Such fuels may incorporate the use of new materials and designs for cladding and fuel pellets. KHNP, together with Kepco Nuclear Fuel (KNF), began developing accident-resistant nuclear fuel in 2017 as ...

Scientists in the US have been testing spin-polarized nuclear fuel inside tokamaks operating at ...

Doomsday scenario: Terrorists commandeer a 747 and crash it into San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s dry waste storage pad. Are we all going to die? Well, yes, someday. But probably not from this.

produce a gas tight joint at one end of a SiGA® cladding rod. “Our patented local joining process seals the fuel rods without exposing the nuclear fuel pellets to high temperature water,” said Scott ...