Nuclear waste is spread across 94 different nuclear sites in the U.S. and has no permanent home. Big Tech is going to add more to the pile.

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 ...

The analysis revealed that the first piece of debris contained uranium and zirconium, a metal used in the cladding that encases fuel rods. JAEA said the debris was formed from melted nuclear fuel ...

As the death toll rises in Japan in the aftermath of Friday's earthquake, a nuclear disaster threat looms as fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant became fully exposed. Also ...

SAN DIEGO, CAPELLEN / ACCESSWIRE / December 4, 2024 / General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today that unfueled nuclear fuel rods using the company's SiGA® fuel cladding ...