The aftermath of Sellafield's 1957 reactor fire and the UK's ongoing efforts to entomb its toxic legacy deep beneath the ...

For a country such as Canada, which has no military-related nuclear waste, this fuel waste is undoubtedly the most toxic ...

Polson biochemist Ed Gannon nudges a nondescript gray chunk of rock, and then shakes a pile of round pellets into his hand. Both contain phosphate – a nutrient ... such as strong acids, heavy metals, ...

The automated facility has already made mockup nuclear fuel bundles for the BREST-OD-300 core design, as per Rosatom.

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

Quantum technology company Alice & Bob outlines its plan for quantum computing by 2030, but how feasible is that goal?

in which a cat locked in a box with a radioactive pellet exists in a superposition of "dead" and "alive" states until the box is opened . Researchers from the Paris-based quantum technology ...

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 ...

These pellets are placed inside metal alloy tubes ... like cesium-137 and strontium-90. These radioactive isotopes can then break down to produce new elements. Meanwhile, some atoms of uranium ...