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Another nuclear renaissance, even as San Onofre is torn down?
12 Jun 2025 00:32 GMT
… storage of used fuel rods at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on … with spent nuclear fuel, which could aid in the eventual removal of spent fuel from … SONGS (San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station) and …
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Engineer debunks widespread myth about nuclear energy: 'Kind of misleading'
10 Jun 2025 21:29 GMT
… does not currently recycle spent nuclear fuel, opting instead to store … -238 fuel rods — both isotopes of uranium used in nuclear reactors … uranium remains in the spent fuel after the fission process. … times the amount of radioactive waste," another shared …
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What is Sizewell C nuclear plant and why is it controversial?
10 Jun 2025 08:57 GMT
… so far.
What is nuclear energy?
Nuclear energy from inside atoms …
To generate nuclear power, uranium rods are used as fuel in a power … break down in process called nuclear fission, which releases huge … Sizewell C that could be spent on other priorities, and …
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The UK’s 'most hazardous building' - the story of Sellafield’s nuclear disaster
04 Jun 2025 17:52 GMT
… and push the burning fuel rods out of the graphite … buildings plus the highly radioactive nuclear waste and unstable materials … cladding waste and removed from nuclear fuel rods.
Despite an estimated decommissioning … high-level waste and spent fuel from 2075.
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America First – We Hardly Knew Ye
16 Jun 2025 11:16 GMT
… waste product rather than conventional spent nuclear fuel rods.
In truth, the Iranians … inspection regime encompassing the entire nuclear fuel chain. International inspectors were … . That encompassed imports of nuclear fuel cycle equipment and materials, …
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Nuclear power is back. Will it work out this time?
31 May 2025 23:10 GMT
… , where robots cut open control rods to remove their plutonium
BARRY … to do with the spent fuel and other radioactive waste. Nuclear Waste Services, which … ” facility — in which to bury radioactive material.
Three potential sites have …
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Russia builds power lines to restart and connect seized Ukrainian nuclear plant to its grid
29 May 2025 00:35 GMT
… plans to restart Ukrainian occupied nuclear plant
Russian officials have explicitly … at Zaporizhzhia,” said Shaun Burnie, nuclear specialist at Greenpeace Ukraine.
Burnie … to cool reactors and spent fuel rods.
Jan Vande Putte, nuclear expert at Greenpeace …
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Residents to lobby Plymouth MP over Royal Navy nuclear dockyard worries
28 May 2025 17:12 GMT
… anxious regarding "the ongoing radioactive contamination of their environment.… that four had had their nuclear fuel rods removed, while the remaining nine … billion a year spent on nuclear weapons should be spent on turning communities …
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Moscow Planning to Connect Occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant to Russian Grid
28 May 2025 03:43 GMT
… the temporarily occupied Zaporozhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (Zaporizhzhia NPP … and Europe, has six nuclear reactors, and an electricity … cool its reactors and spent fuel rods.
Other Topics of Interest … energy infrastructure, and nuclear power supplied over half …
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Nuclear waste is more valuable than gold: Part two
26 May 2025 06:35 GMT
… process (see Figure 2) spent fuel from light water reactors ( … cast into fresh fuel rods in the fuel fabrication furnace and … then use all the spent nuclear waste produced by the … Processing technologies: recycling used nuclear fuel for a sustainable energy …