It’s worth looking at high-assay low-enriched uranium, or HALEU, specifically. This fuel is enriched to higher concentrations ...

The Trump administration is racing to expand nuclear power, and the country’s chief safety regulator is being pushed to keep ...

Ultra-pure nuclear fuel is quietly becoming one of the most strategic technologies in the energy transition, with the United ...

A critical shortage of fuel for nuclear fusion reactors may have a rather counterintuitive solution. A physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) says that fusion reactor fuel could be ...

The Department of Energy will announce an initiative to build out the nation's nuclear fuel supply chain as interest in the ...

As the spallation neutron beam passes through the TRISO particle, some neutrons are absorbed by the uranium while most are scattered away. A neutron area detector collects the scattered neutrons, ...

BWX Technologies has received a $174 million contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture nuclear reactor fuel in support of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. BWXT said Thursday the Navy contract ...

One of the surviving reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was loaded with fuel last summer and recently turned back on, ...

Consumption of electricity is rising in the United States, straining our existing power grids. Fortunately, nuclear energy is positioned to meet this additional demand. This should surprise no one.

Nuclear power plants can provide a continuous and reliable supply of energy because they operate at full capacity nearly uninterrupted. This contrasts with variable renewable energy sources, such as ...

On February 2, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a new categorical exclusion (CATEX) under the National Environmental Policy ...