Iran has faced suspicion for decades over its nuclear ambitions and whether it’s developing the capability to fire an atomic ...

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

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

In a conventional reactor these neutrons are supplied by the fission reaction itself, which requires a certain concentration of the correct fissile isotopes (typically 235 U or 239 Pu) to be ...

Westinghouse Electric Company's lead test assemblies with LEU+ fuel have been loaded into Unit 2 of the Vogtle nuclear power plant - a first for such fuel in a commercial reactor in the USA. ; ...

Commercial nuclear reactors typically operate on fuel that is between 3% and 5% enriched uranium 235, the main fissile isotope that produces energy during a chain reaction, the DOE said.

Southern Nuclear recently loaded a new higher enriched nuclear fuel into a commercial reactor for irradiation testing. This ...

Because of its abundance and its fissile material breeding capability ... Thorium-232, the only naturally occurring isotope of thorium, is considered ‘fertile’ for fission. This means that it needs a ...

India's three-stage nuclear program has come up for discussion in the Rajya Sabha. In today's knowledge nugget, learn about ...