Nuclear energy is staging a comeback powered by surging demand for carbon-free electricity. One company is selling super-safe ...

The first Russian-made nuclear reactor fuel bundles with experimental ATF (Advanced Technology Fuel) rods have been loaded into Unit 2 at the Rostov nuclear power plant (NPP) in southwest Russia. The ...

Engineers must manage a maelstrom in the core of operating nuclear reactors. Nuclear reactions deposit an extraordinary amount of heat in the fuel rods, setting off a frenzy of boiling, bubbling, and ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has successfully produced and tested fuel rods for use in its nuclear power plants, state television reported on Sunday, in a snub to international demands that it halt ...

21 August 2006 – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order for a set of replacement control rod drive mechanisms (CRDM) for nuclear reactors from Ringhals AB of Sweden. The ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)—the company that runs the Fukushima nuclear plants—says that 70% of the fuel rods have been damaged on the reactor 1 and 33% have been damaged on reactor 2. “The ...

Engineers at a nuclear plant in southern China have been forced to shut down a reactor after minor fuel damage was detected. China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) said on Friday that the Taishan ...

A nuclear power plant is environmentally beneficial and generates 8000 times more power than fossil fuels, but when accidents do happen, they can have serious consequences, as in the case of the ...

Q. What's the case for or against nuclear energy? Pros: Unlike electrical-power plants that burn coal or other fossil fuels, a nuclear power plant produces virtually no carbon dioxide, a pollutant ...

Palisades Nuclear Plant receives 68 new fuel assemblies as it moves toward becoming the first shuttered U.S. nuclear facility to restart operations.

A worker fell into the nuclear reactor at the controversial Palisades Power Plant in Michigan, where they drank a little ...

Each spring, nearly 1,000 highly specialized technicians from around the US descend on the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station near Phoenix, Arizona, to refuel one of the plant’s three nuclear ...