WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance said Monday he believed Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile is buried beneath three nuclear facilities bombed by the US over the weekend — though other officials and ...

But this "spent" fuel generally retains about 95 percent of the uranium it started with, and that uranium can be recycled. Over the past four decades, America's reactors have produced about 56,000 ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) confirmed that it reached another significant milestone in its Silicon ...

Proliferation, Pakistan is actively modernizing and expanding its nuclear arsenal, with projections indicating further growth ...

Like all other actinides, uranium is “radioactive” – it decays over time and releases energy in the process. Its special properties make uranium the main source of fuel for nuclear reactors — a ...

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 ...

The fuel, called high-assay low-enriched uranium, or HALEU, is enriched to levels of up to 20%, compared with about 5% for the fuel that powers most existing reactors.

TRISO fuel was first developed in the United States and United Kingdom in the 1960s with uranium dioxide fuel. In 2002, the Department of Energy (DOE) focused on improving TRISO fuel using uranium ...

A special uranium fuel planned for next-generation U.S. nuclear reactors poses security risks because it could be used without further enrichment as fissile material in nuclear weapons, scientists ...

Advanced nuclear reactors need a different type of uranium. Here’s 4 things to know . Questions about the fuel, called high-assay low-enriched uranium, remain ...

Small modular reactor (SMR) developers in the U.S. have announced a string of deals and investments to secure steady supplies of HALEU nuclear fuel amid fears that the lack of a domestic nuclear ...

As nuclear energy stages a comeback globally, the U.S. is reviving domestic uranium production to reduce the risk of a critical fuel shortage in the future. Graphic: Ryan Trefes ...