The fuel was subjected to full reactor heat and hydrogen gas and kept there for 20 minutes – about what a nuclear engine would have to endure during a boost maneuver.

FORSMARK, Sweden, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Sweden started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste ...

All nuclear fission reactors generate radioactive waste, some of which will be highly hazardous for many generations (up to hundreds of thousands of years). This is true even for those reactor ...

Uranium fuel used in nuclear power plants is enriched with special centrifuges in a process that takes three to five years. Russian companies hold a roughly 40% global market share, leading in the ...

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, with hopes that the fuel could take humans to Mars in the not-too ...

Newcleo aims to build so-called lead-cooled fast reactors (LFR) that will allow the use of Slovakian spent nuclear fuel as fuel, offering a sustainable solution to deal with nuclear waste and ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today announced the creation of a new 'Nuclear Energy Mission for Viksit Bharat' and pushed for amending laws that are limiting this growth. In her budget speech.

That same year, President Trump issued a presidential memorandum to establish the United States Nuclear Fuel Working Group. It was a meaningful acknowledgment that there are national security ...

It will also aim to develop a nuclear fuel supply route with French government support, "with the ultimate goal of the reprocessing and use of Slovak Republic spent nuclear fuels and enables long-term ...

NANO Nuclear believes it is the first portable nuclear microreactor company to be listed publicly in the U.S. Advanced Fuel Transportation Inc. (AFT), a NANO Nuclear subsidiary, is led by former ...

Planning rules will be ripped up to make it easier to build new nuclear reactors and create thousands of highly skilled jobs, the government has announced. The reforms are the latest in a series ...