While the world has been focusing on the Iranian nuclear programme, another country has been flourishing in nuclear ...

Both are ambitious goals, given that American firms have long struggled to build reactors on time and on budget, and because ...

A demonstration accident-resistant nuclear fuel assembly has been loaded into the core of unit 6 of the Hanul nuclear power ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has secured an order from Shikoku Electric Power to supply 24 MOX (mixed oxide fuel) ...

Spent fuel assemblies could ignite—starting a zirconium fire—if an overloaded pool were to lose a sizable portion or all of its coolant water. In a scenario in which coolant water boils off, uncovered ...

One of the fuel assemblies destined for China (handout) A Kazakh-Chinese joint venture has made its first delivery of fuel assemblies to nuclear power stations in China, uranium giant Kazatomprom has ...

Rosatom revealed that at power unit No. 6 of Novovoronezh NPP, a batch of fifth-generation nuclear fuel assemblies TVS-5 has been loaded into the VVER-1200 reactor core for the first time.

Southern Nuclear uses new fuel assemblies enriched above 5% in a US reactor for the first time, testing high assay low enriched uranium.

Fuel assembly bottom nozzle fabricated using additive manufacturing (Image: Westinghouse) According to the company, debris-wearing action on the fuel rod cladding - known as debris fretting - is the ...

San Onofre initially shipped 270 spent fuel assemblies from its original Unit 1 reactor by rail before the federal government halted the process in the early 1970s, he said.