This study responds to a congressional mandate in the FY2020 Appropriations Act's Conference Report in the subsection titled “Used Nuclear Fuel Disposition R&D," which calls for the Academies to ...
Balakovo 1 has successfully completed three 18-month cycles using REMIX fuel, advancing Russia’s efforts to achieve a closed nuclear fuel cycle.
Three fuel assemblies with uranium-plutonium REMIX fuel have completed their third 18-month VVER-1000 fuel cycle at Russia's ...
A Russian energy firm has started the operation of fifth-generation nuclear fuel assemblies, which have been loaded into the VVER-1200 reactor core of Novovoronezh. The process performed at Rosatom ...
High-burnup fuel rods, manufactured by GE Vernova’s Nuclear Fuel business, Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF), have been delivered to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) ...
As global nuclear ambitions surge, the industry’s fuel supply chain faces critical gaps. Can advanced fuels like HALEU (high-assay low-enriched uranium) and TRISO (TRi-structural ISOtropic particle ...
The third 18-month cycle of operation of accident tolerant fuel has begun at Rostov nuclear power plant unit 2, Rosatom has announced. (Image: Rosatom) The fuel assemblies with experimental fuel ...