The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

The higher enriched fuel could help extend operation cycles from 18 to 24 months, according to the DOE's Office of Nuclear ...

A US nuclear reactor has switched from Regular to Premium fuel with Southern Nuclear inserting four Lead Test Assemblies ...

A single kilogram of uranium-235 (the most popular fissile isotope of uranium) can theoretically produce the same amount of power as 1.5 million kilograms of coal. Nuclear fission also doesn’t ...

In this 14th installment of several articles covering the life and accomplishments of Kenneth D. Nichols, his diplomacy ...

The nuclear fuel cycle is the series of industrial processes that turns uranium into electricity. Claire Maden takes a look ...

The enrichment centrifuge is a device used to extract uranium-235 isotope from a sample of natural uranium. U-235 is fissile and thus useful to generate nuclear power and to build nuclear weapons.

Read about DOE's conditional commitments to distribute HALEU material to five nuclear developers to meet their near-term fuel ...

Southern Nuclear has made history by loading a new, higher enriched nuclear fuel into a commercial reactor at Plant Vogtle ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) defines uranium as a Low Specific Activity material. In its natural state, it consists of three isotopes (U-234, U-235 and U-238). Other isotopes that ...