Since the construction of the first commercial light water nuclear power plants (LWR) the design of their fuel rods hasn’t changed significantly. Mechanically robust and corrosion-resistant zirconium ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a major step forward for nuclear safety, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has announced the successful ...

Southern Nuclear has agreed to load four Lead Test Assemblies (LTAs) with “next-generation” fuel features into Unit 2 of the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia. The installation will ...

Rosatom announced that it has started the fourth irradiation cycle of fuel assemblies with VVER-type fuel rods in the MIR research reactor (Figure 1) at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in ...

The first Russian-made nuclear reactor fuel bundles with experimental ATF (Advanced Technology Fuel) rods have been loaded into Unit 2 at the Rostov nuclear power plant (NPP) in southwest Russia. The ...

Electricite de France SA is increasing the iron content of cladding for nuclear fuel rods to address a long-standing issue with corrosion, as a French newspaper reported that a reactor in China is ...

The first Russian-made nuclear fuel assemblies with experimental accident-tolerant fuel rods for commercial reactors have been manufactured and passed acceptance inspection at Novosibirsk Chemical ...

Lead test assemblies of accident-tolerant fuel installed in unit 1 of Southern Nuclear's Edwin I Hatch nuclear power plant in early 2018 have completed a 24-month fuel cycle. A sample of the lead test ...

Corrosion of fuel rod cladding and primary circuit component materials has for many years remained a serious concern for water cooled nuclear power reactors, especially those operated at high burnup ...