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 ...

Nuclear power may be the answer to our energy problems, but if that's true, why are we tossing out the fuel rods when they still have some life?

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)—the company that runs the Fukushima nuclear plants—says that 70% of the fuel rods have been damaged on the reactor 1 and 33% have been damaged on reactor 2. “The ...

High-burnup fuel rods, manufactured by GE Vernova’s Nuclear Fuel business, Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF), have been delivered to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) ...

It's been more than three years since the Fukushima Daiichi power plant melted down, and despite nearly unlimited interest from the public we still have virtually no idea what's going on in there.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has successfully produced and tested fuel rods for use in its nuclear power plants, state television reported on Sunday, in a snub to international demands that it halt ...

There are no major technical roadblocks for the Republic to store its nuclear waste – possibly deep underground – if the ...

The fuel rods are exposed again. Japanese officials are saying that fuel rods are melting inside all three nuclear reactors. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano just said: “Although we cannot directly ...

A close up view of nuclear fuel rods in a reactor to generate power through fission. - Roman Brauner/Shutterstock Nuclear reactors generate power through a process called nuclear fission, using ...