Compared to traditional ceramic pellet-in-tube designs, Lightbridge’s multi-lobed and helically twisted rod structure (inspired by decades of successful use of uranium-zirconium alloy fuel in ...

Designers at SverdNIIhimmash (part of Rosatom’s Mechanical Engineering Division) have received patents for a model of a press ...

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 ...

Russia plans to produce over 200 MNUP fuel bundles ahead of the initial core loading of the BREST-OD-300 reactor.

Europium glows red under UV light, so it’s used in making Euro banknotes to prevent forgeries, added to low-energy light bulbs so that the white color appears warmer ... metal used in alloys to make ...

General Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power ...

Before the early 1990s, the United States was producing its own enriched uranium, the fuel used in nuclear reactors. However, Russia soon undercut the market, so America instead started importing ...