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

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 ...

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

Heisenberg noted that they could use pure uranium 235, a rare isotope, as an explosive. In the summer of 1940, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, a younger colleague and friend of Heisenberg's ...

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

These documents include its having been logged in the boat’s manifest (and besides an eyewitness account of it having been ...

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

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

CONVERSION, has been launched to accelerate using high-performance nuclear fuels, such as low-enriched uranium fissile materials. The project hopes to find ways to use such fuel sources and convert ...

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 ...

In this capacity he had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction and operation of all plants required to produce plutonium-239 and uranium-235, ...