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Uranium: underpriced commodity for a nuclear future
28 Nov 2025 14:43 GMT
… loading them into zirconium alloy fuel rods. This stage is highly specialized … + reactors. Lastly, in terms of spent fuel, the go to method remains … for expensive baseload nuclear power.
Major nuclear accident
The nuclear industry operates under …
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Tiny fuel grains reveal how the Chernobyl reactor worked inside
28 Nov 2025 01:51 GMT
… particles, microscopic bits of radioactive fuel left after an accident … residence times of fuel rods that typically spent about three … Chernobyl fuel
The field of nuclear forensics, analysis of nuclear … new ways to trace nuclear materials, test safety claims …
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North Korea’s relentless nuclear march revealed by new photos
25 Nov 2025 16:08 GMT
… satellite photographs.
The Yongbyon nuclear plant
38 NORTH
“ … 5 megawatt nuclear reactor, of which spent fuel rods can be … warheads.
Buildings for storing radioactive waste have also been … fission warheads” — tactical nuclear weapons designed for use on …
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Utah is betting big on nuclear. Here’s what a leading expert says about its future.
25 Nov 2025 13:15 GMT
… any spent nuclear fuel. It’s not green goo, it’s metal rods. To … recycle nuclear material?
The current reactors are bundles of fuel rods. Those rods are … radioactive?
Yes. Sometimes people say we should just recycle all the spent nuclear fuel …
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Should you be afraid of nuclear energy?
25 Nov 2025 04:29 GMT
… 315,000 bundles of spent nuclear fuel rods (that are radioactive) sitting in concrete vaults … 2,000 metric tons of spent fuel (nuclear waste) while producing enough power … that is high-level waste (radioactive).
Nuclear engineers store high-level waste …
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Nuclear Scientist Cautions against Ethiopia’s Newfound Atomic Ambitions
22 Nov 2025 10:04 GMT
… research on uranium chemistry, nuclear reactors, radioactive waste disposal strategies, and … of fuel rods. Waste management, including the long-term storage of spent fuel … risks associated with nuclear waste? Nuclear reactors produce radioactive waste as a …
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(News Focus) Door opens for Seoul's pursuit of uranium enrichment, spent fuel reprocessing
14 Nov 2025 08:25 GMT
… to enrich uranium and reprocess spent nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes, with … very limited authority to reprocess spent nuclear fuel or enrich uranium for civilian … operates 26 commercial nuclear reactors. The storage for spent fuel rods from the reactors …
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Nuclear Waste Recycling: Realistic Pursuit or Delusion?
18 Nov 2025 10:37 GMT
… of Waste
The radioactive waste left behind after nuclear fission includes material … the smallest, consisting primarily of spent fuel rods removed from reactors. It makes …
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Nuclear waste may hold the key to greener hydrogen production
15 Nov 2025 06:32 GMT
… of Sharjah claims that spent fuel from nuclear power plants could … of system for using nuclear waste for hydrogen productionUniversity … this is attractive because spent fuel rods taken straight from a … system.
"Utilizing nuclear waste is a novel …
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Britain's first mini nuclear power station gets the green light: 'Small modular reactors' will be built by Rolls-Royce in north Wales - and will provide enough power for 3 MILLION homes
13 Nov 2025 16:25 GMT
… produce long-lasting nuclear waste – primarily spent uranium fuel, considered radioactive and hazardous for … often the radioactive compounds created from the fission.
Control rods can be …