Fuel rods are long metal tubes filled with uranium that’s been formed into pellets. When these rods ... That in turn boils water and creates steam, which powers turbines and produces electricity.

Two much-watched advanced nuclear fuel technology companies—Oklo and Lightbridge—will consider co-locating their commercial ...

This will pressure the sector to find new facilities that can convert uranium into pellets used to fuel reactors. Outside of Russia, Western countries with operational uranium conversion facilities ...

The price of fuel for nuclear reactors has surged ... on the industry to find new facilities that can convert uranium into the pellets that go into nuclear reactors. Outside of Russia, the main ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Thursday evening, as Westinghouse prepares to embark on an expansion of its Hopkins uranium fuel pellet facility, company officials invited the public to an engagement event to ...

Today, nuclear fission is largely produced with fuel rods, which are skinny zirconium tubes packed with uranium pellets ... do away with control rods, huge water baths, and concrete cooling ...