Nuclear fuel rods that work more efficiently, last much longer, and minimize nuclear waste may soon help generate more sustainable energy sources. Interesting Engineering shared the latest development ...

The third and final pilot 18-month operation of accident-tolerant fuel has been completed at Rostov Nuclear Power Plant’s unit 2.  ; ...

Fuel cladding is a barrier between the reactor coolant and nuclear fuel pellets and is essential to protecting the fuel while also ensuring the safety of a nuclear power plant. Fuel is stacked into ...

GE Vernova (NYSE:GEV) said its Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) alliance has extended a fuel supply agreement with Entergy, ensuring continued deliveries for the Grand Gulf and River Bend nuclear power ...

Father and son entrepreneurs Mehul and Milan Shah have patented a new nuclear fuel design that could reduce nuclear waste, enhance safety and lower costs for today’s pressurized heavy water reactors.

Such fuels may incorporate the use of new materials and designs for cladding and fuel pellets. KHNP, together with Kepco Nuclear Fuel (KNF), began developing accident-resistant nuclear fuel in 2017 as ...

Over a two-year span, the Southern Co.’s Plant Vogtle power complex repeatedly made history, potentially changing the entire economics of the nuclear industry with a new uranium fuel. In 2023, Georgia ...

Nuclear power plants have a bad rap due to the tragic Chernobyl incident and the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California, ...

Photo taken through a furnace viewport capturing the localized induction heating process used to produce a gas tight joint at one end of a SiGA® cladding rod. “Our patented local joining process seals ...

produce a gas tight joint at one end of a SiGA® cladding rod. “Our patented local joining process seals the fuel rods without exposing the nuclear fuel pellets to high temperature water,” said Scott ...