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.

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) ...

Engineers must manage a maelstrom in the core of operating nuclear reactors. Nuclear reactions deposit an extraordinary amount of heat in the fuel rods, setting off a frenzy of boiling, bubbling, and ...

PARIS (Reuters) - EDF (EDF.PA) said on Tuesday it had been informed about shortcomings found in quality controls on a small number of rods installed at its French nuclear sites. EDF said the discovery ...

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 ...

21 August 2006 – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order for a set of replacement control rod drive mechanisms (CRDM) for nuclear reactors from Ringhals AB of Sweden. The ...

Q. What's the case for or against nuclear energy? Pros: Unlike electrical-power plants that burn coal or other fossil fuels, a nuclear power plant produces virtually no carbon dioxide, a pollutant ...

Iran began the process of loading 163 fuel rods into the reactor core of its first nuclear power plant on Tuesday, celebrating the achievement as proof that Tehran can outmaneuver international ...

Engineers at a nuclear plant in southern China have been forced to shut down a reactor after minor fuel damage was detected. China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) said on Friday that the Taishan ...

"Completed numerous design reviews." Former SpaceX engineers develop small nuclear reactors that could revolutionize energy ...

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 ...

Each spring, nearly 1,000 highly specialized technicians from around the US descend on the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station near Phoenix, Arizona, to refuel one of the plant’s three nuclear ...