The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste in the U.S. will continue, probably for many ...

The nuclear fuel cycle is the series of industrial processes that turns uranium into electricity. Claire Maden takes a look ...

O. Hahn and F. Strassmann 1 have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they ...

A US nuclear reactor has switched from Regular to Premium fuel with Southern Nuclear inserting four Lead Test Assemblies ...

uranium has to be "enriched" in the U-235 isotope, which is responsible for nuclear fission. During the enrichment process the fraction of U-235 is increased from its natural level (0.72% by mass) to ...

Uranium is used to power the process of nuclear fission. During nuclear fission, an unstable uranium atom is split in half, which releases a large amount of energy. Clean burning and effective ...

A subsidiary of Amazon-backed X-energy will get uranium from the U.S. government to support its $300 million plant in Oak Ridge.