The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day drastically cut down the travel time to Mars and beyond. The tests showed the fuel can withstand the harsh conditions of a ...

The federal government hopes former coal towns will help the nuclear industry grow, by taking on the decades-long challenge ...

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 ...

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

Kansai Electric Power is working to double the amount of spent nuclear fuel it will ship to France, increasing it by about 200 tons, informed sources said. The move comes as Fukui Prefecture ...

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 ...

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.

On Jan. 16 the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Air Quality held a public hearing to discuss UNC's proposal to burn fuel pellets, which may contain Per ...

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 ...

FRM-II currently uses fuel enriched to over 95% uranium-235 to generate its dense neutron flux - and such high-enriched uranium (HEU) is seen as a nuclear proliferation risk. TUM has agreed with the ...

The role of redox and structure on grain growth in Mn-doped UO 2 Mn-doped UO 2 is a promising nuclear fuel, and is predicted to undergo favourable grain growth during service. This study uses ...