Experimental fuel capsules being staged at the Advanced Test Reactor. Source: Clean Core Thorium Energy A ...

Idaho National Lab partners with Clean Core to test a new thorium-based nuclear fuel that may improve safety, cut waste, and ...

They exposed scintillator crystals—a material that emits light when it absorbs radiation—to gamma radiation, which is produced by nuclear waste. The crystals’ light then powered a solar battery.

April 10 (UPI) --For the first time, nuclear fuel enriched above 5% will be irradiated in a commercial U.S. reactor, the Department of Energy announced Thursday. "The higher enrichment levels ...

Utah’s Office of Energy Development and nuclear startup Valar Atomics signed a memorandum of understanding on May 16.

The Utah National Guard is poised to ink a deal with a California-based company — confusingly called Utah Energy — to house a facility related to the fuel enrichment process.