The Westinghouse Springfields facility in Lancashire, UK, has marked a significant milestone as the oldest continuous nuclear fuel manufacturing site in the world, starting from its original license ...

Nuclear fuel rods that work more efficiently, last much longer, and minimize nuclear waste may soon help generate more sustainable energy sources. Interesting Engineering shared the latest development ...

Lightbridge Corporation has secured a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a patent application ...

A new Texas-based startup has launched an effort to build what would be the first U.S. uranium conversion facility in more ...

Fuel cladding is a barrier between the reactor coolant and nuclear fuel pellets and is essential to protecting the fuel while also ensuring the safety of a nuclear power plant. Fuel is stacked into ...

Uranium is at the heart of most nuclear weapons, but most don't understand how it's processed or how close Iran is to having ...

Such fuels may incorporate the use of new materials and designs for cladding and fuel pellets. KHNP, together with Kepco Nuclear Fuel (KNF), began developing accident-resistant nuclear fuel in 2017 as ...

produce a gas tight joint at one end of a SiGA® cladding rod. “Our patented local joining process seals the fuel rods without exposing the nuclear fuel pellets to high temperature water,” said Scott ...

Photo taken through a furnace viewport capturing the localized induction heating process used to produce a gas tight joint at one end of a SiGA® cladding rod. “Our patented local joining process seals ...