TOKYO (Reuters) - The high level of radiation in water flooding the basement of a building housing the No.2 reactor at Japan's tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is likely to be due to ...

Since the construction of the first commercial light water nuclear power plants (LWR) the design of their fuel rods hasn’t changed significantly. Mechanically robust and corrosion-resistant zirconium ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a major step forward for nuclear safety, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has announced the successful ...

Part of a nuclear reactor fuel rod element. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has completed a study of advanced, better performing accident tolerant fuels being developed by three U.S. companies ...

In nuclear reactor fuels, these differing Ru fission yields result in variable Ru isotopic composition as the reactor fuel burns up and the amount of Pu in the fuel increases. For example, Byerly and ...

Nuclear reactors generate power through a process called nuclear fission, using uranium for fuel to release an immense amount of energy as heat. Ceramic pellets with low-enriched uranium are stacked ...

A demonstration accident-resistant nuclear fuel assembly has been loaded into the core of unit 6 of the Hanul nuclear power plant, marking the first time in Korea that such a fuel assembly has been ...

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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2013 file photo, a Tokyo Electric Power Co. employee ...

The operator of Japan's damaged nuclear power plant said Tuesday that fuel rods inside three of the facility's reactors likely melted in the days immediately after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.