A Trump Deal With Iran May Hinge on the Number Zero

Zero is how much uranium President Trump says he would allow Iran to enrich — or refine into a potency suitable for nuclear ...

Iran and US hold indirect talks in Oman. America's military leader in the Mideast joins the talks

Iran and the United States have held indirect talks in Oman. The negotiations, while praised by Iran and Oman, appeared to be ...

Iran and U.S. hold indirect talks in Oman

The presence of U.S. Navy Adm. Brad Cooper, in his dress uniform at the talks in Muscat, the Omani capital, served as a ...

Iran says talks with U.S. to continue, but adds mistrust to be addressed as Trump's threats linger

After a round of indirect talks with Trump's envoys in Oman, Iran's top diplomat says the country will keep negotiating, but ...
MIT Technology Review

Three questions about next-generation nuclear power, answered

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

Neutron scattering reveals hard-to-detect chemistry inside novel reactor fuels

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, ...

Department of Energy announces new efforts to boost nuclear fuel supply chain

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

BWXT opens Oak Ridge centrifuge plant, which is key to American defense

A new centrifuge plant in Oak Ridge will bring a nuclear company with plans to enrich uranium fuel for military uses one step ...