The unit for fabrication/refabrication of nuclear fuel for the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast neutron reactor has been put ...

As a warning about how close we are to atomic holocaust, the Doomsday Clock stands at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it ...

Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it, but what is it? Is it a problem without a solution? How big is the problem? And what ...

Nuclear fission has long been a cornerstone of global energy production. With increasing energy demands, the International ...

The arguments for and against nuclear power in Australia are confounding for everyday folk like me. I honestly don’t know who ...

Although it was just a byproduct of developing a new type of reactor, the generation of electricity from nuclear energy ...

The fuel plant intended to support the Brest-OD-300 lead-cooled fast reactor is part of the IV generation Experimental ...

Although traditional nuclear energy, derived from uranium or plutonium, has been hailed as a reliable, low-carbon energy source, it has also raised significant objections from environmentalists ...

A key facet of the program envisions integrating reprocessed uranium and plutonium from SNF into Russia’s nuclear energy ecosystem. An explicit goal is to close the nuclear fuel cycle for ...

With the world’s largest reserves of 1.07 million tonnes, thorium is India’s second biggest energy resource, after coal— ...

A unique technology for the fabrication of uranium-plutonium nitride fuel was developed in Russia by Rosatom scientists. The trial assemblies with experimental MNUP fuel elements were successfully ...

such as plutonium, are released into the environment mainly through nuclear tests, reactor accidents or failures of satellites and space probes containing radioactive sources of energy.