Nuclear reactors are traditionally powered with dense fuel rods that can produce about 1 gigawatt of carbon-free electricity, ...

Nuclear reactors generate power through a process called nuclear fission, using uranium for fuel to release an immense amount of energy as heat. Ceramic pellets with low-enriched uranium are stacked ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aalo Atomics, the company building sodium-cooled, extra modular nuclear reactors (XMRs) to power modern AI data centers, has signed a fuel fabrication contract with ...

Engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have reached a critical milestone in the development of the MARVEL microreactor. They have successfully assembled and tested a novel Reactivity Control ...

Studies suggest that nearly half a million people died in the U.S. alone from complications related to pollution from coal-fired electrical plants in the 21 years from 1999 to 2020, yet nobody seems ...

Unit 1 of Russia's Balakovo nuclear power plant has begun pilot operation using accident-tolerant MOX fuel assemblies. (Image: Rosatom) During a scheduled refuelling at Balakovo 1, three innovative ...

A close up view of nuclear fuel rods in a reactor to generate power through fission. - Roman Brauner/Shutterstock Nuclear reactors generate power through a process called nuclear fission, using ...