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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And if that wasn't enough to give a nuclear engineer a haunted look, there's the problem of fabricating the fuel for the reactor. You can't use metallic uranium like in conventional fuel rods.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today that it has reached another significant milestone in the ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today that unfueled nuclear fuel rods using the company's SiGA® fuel cladding successfully survived a 120-day irradiation testing period ...

Global interest in fast reactors has been growing since their inception in 1960 because they can provide efficient, safe and sustainable energy. Their closed fuel cycle can support long-term nuclear ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency on Dec. 26 released images of nuclear fuel debris retrieved from the No. 2 reactor at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.