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

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 ...

Beginning in the late 1950s, the U.S. met this challenge by developing nuclear batteries known as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and producing plutonium-238 (Pu-238) as their fuel, ...

The Pu-238 fuel pellets are encased in the stack of GPHS blocks in the center. Source: NASA Radioisotope Power Systems The design of RTGs for space is fairly simple. Radioactive fuel is pressed ...

“Unlike uranium-plutonium fuel for ‘fast’ reactors ... TVEL noted it made the REMIX fuel pellets at the Zheleznogorsk Mining and Chemical Combine and manufactured the fuel assemblies ...

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 ...

Japan’s plutonium stockpiles in Britain and France totaled 21.8 tons and 15.4 tons, respectively, as of December 2020. Britain shut down its only M OX plant in 2011, which means it can no longer ...