And if that wasn't enough to give a nuclear engineer a haunted look, there's the problem of fabricating the fuel for the reactor. You can't use metallic uranium like in conventional fuel rods.

Uranium is the critical fuel that powers nuclear power plants worldwide, providing a significant portion of clean, low-carbon ...

Since the construction of the first commercial light water nuclear ... the zircalloy fuel rods were partially destroyed, it was the formation of hydrogen gas inside the reactor vessels and the ...

President Trump is set to sign executive orders to boost the nuclear energy industry by streamlining reactor approvals and ...

A definite location for the FNPP has not yet been announced. Rather than the typical fuel powering a nuclear reactor, uranium-235 rods, these reactors will be using salt and powdered uranium oxide ...

GLEEP the first nuclear reactor in Western Europe was built at Harwell in 1946.In 1946, because of its proximity to Oxford, an RAF airfield at Harwell was chosen as the site for research and ...

Taiwan’s last operating nuclear reactor gradually began to reduce its power generation yesterday afternoon before completely ...

President Trump signed executive orders aimed at expanding the production of nuclear energy and easing the regulatory process ...

According to a recent Bloomberg report shutting down nuclear power in Taiwan, which prior to 2015 accounted for more than 16% ...

Taiwan started to shut its final nuclear reactor on Saturday as a 40-year operating license expired, in a move that could ...