Big Tech's big bet on nuclear power 07:30. ... CEO Mike Laufer says that his reactors don't use fuel rods; they use fuel pebbles, about the size of golf balls – mostly graphite, ...

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / June 24, 2025 / General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today ...

A demonstration accident-resistant nuclear fuel assembly has been loaded into the core of unit 6 of the Hanul nuclear power ...

On the pad are 60 cement and steel canisters that contain 1,400 spent nuclear fuel rods, the leavings of a power plant that shut down almost 30 years ago. The containers are full of nuclear waste.

In December, INL received 25 prototype fuel rods irradiated in the reactor core of a commercial nuclear plant. The fuel rods were developed and manufactured by Westinghouse Electric Company with ...

Nuclear fuel rods are usually immersed in some sort of coolant, typically water, and reactors also use control rods made of neutron-absorbing materials to control the reaction rate. A typical ...

Nuclear did it 45 years ago for several countries, big industrial nations and small ones, with an still unbeaten record in built times, with statistically proven the most safe electrical ...

Lightbridge plutonium disposition fuel variant consumes 5.5 times more plutonium per fuel rod than mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel. Lightbridge’s proprietary next-generation nuclear fuel technology features ...

Some 285 million pounds of low-level waste and debris have been transported off-site. Some 70 canisters filled with spent fuel rods are encased in the “concrete monolith” dry storage system ...

Since the construction of the first commercial light water nuclear power plants (LWR) the design of their fuel rods hasn’t changed significantly. Mechanically robust and corrosion-resistant ...

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.