The thermal reactor fuel they’ve created can survive under peak temperatures of 2,600 Kelvin (4,220 Fahrenheit). The company says that each cycle it tested included a 20-minute hold at peak ...

New nuclear fuel made from U and Th, called ANEEL, can address several issues with nuclear power – cost, proliferation and waste, especially when used in CANDU/PHWR reactors. And it will be here ...

Fuel Testing for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Puts Mars Within Human Reach. Published: 21 Jan 2025, 08:05 UTC • By: Daniel Patrascu. ... Without naming the nuclear fuel it used, ...

The tests showed the fuel can withstand the harsh conditions of a nuclear thermal propulsion reactor. In other words, it has the capability to one day power a nuclear rocket that could fire humans ...

Ninety-six aboveground, aquamarine pools around the country that hold the nuclear industry’s spent reactor fuel may not be as safe as U.S. regulators and the nuclear industry have publicly asserted, a ...

From dry fields to melting glaciers, IAEA scientists and experts are collecting, analysing and sharing data to advance peace, security and sustainable development. Data help us to identify the root ...

Fortunately, the risk of a nuclear explosion is absolutely zero when it comes to a nuclear power plant. Put simply, the fuel used inside every nuclear reactor — as demanded by the International ...

Although nuclear fission is simple enough that it can occur without human intervention as happened for example at the Oklo natural fission reactors, within a commercial reactor the goal is to ...

Re “We’re Thinking About Nuclear Waste All Wrong,” by Madison Hilly (Opinion guest essay, May 1): Ms. Hilly states that spent nuclear fuel is safe and should be “a chief selling point ...

A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS), in what is considered one more step on ...

Frank von Hippel and his colleagues have since produced important analyses revising the risks of spent nuclear fuel fires and highlighting their human and economic costs. Cities at risk. In our paper, ...

Pressure for “advanced” fast reactors and fuel cycles requiring reprocessing will make human-made nuclear explosive materials more readily available world-side. This is a recipe for ultimate disaster ...