In the latter case the problematic isotopes are removed via chemical processes as a lot of U-235 fuel remains in these fuel rods. Since Natrium uses sodium as its coolant instead of water (the ...

The project features a 345 MW sodium-cooled fast reactor with a molten salt ... (HALEU) as its fuel. HALEU is enriched to contain between 5 and 20 percent uranium, which can be produced from spent ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) represent a significant shift in nuclear reactor design, utilizing liquid fuel instead of solid fuel rods. This approach offers ... Among these designs are sodium-cooled ...

As the innermost fuel rods are used up, they’re taken out of the center using a remote-controlled mechanical device and moved to the periphery of the reactor.

Instead, commercial used fuel rods are stored at 76 reactor or storage sites in 34 states across the country. As previously noted, this is done safely and securely, but it could be done in a more ...

The MBIR is a sodium-cooled fast reactor with 150 megawatts of thermal power and will have a design life of up to 50 years. It will be a multi-loop research reactor capable of testing lead, ...

The sodium-cooled BN-series fast reactor plans are part of Rosatom's project to develop fast reactors with a closed fuel cycle whose MOX fuel will be reprocessed and recycled. In addition to the ...

The amount of used fuel is so small, that even for a natural uranium reactor like the CANDU, that has more volume of fuel because it’s not enriched, can store all the fuel rods from decades of ...

Their reactor will burn up to 96 percent of its fuel, compared with only four percent used by light-water reactors, and generate 75 times the electricity per ton of uranium.