Low-enriched uranium is composed of around 5% uranium-235, the fissile isotope that splits to power nuclear reactors. In the long term, the government will need more highly enriched uranium ...

Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil has signed a contract with Russia's Internexco for the temporary export for conversion and ...

T here is a fairly popular idea circulating the Internet that a single gram of uranium contains about 20 billion calories, ...

Resurgent interest in atomic power means the world’s second-biggest provider of enriched uranium is expanding even in Germany ...

Netherlands-based start-up startup Thorizon, has secured €20m ($16.8m) in funding to accelerate the development of its ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

Iran’s 60% level enriched uranium had increased to 275 kilograms, an increase of approximately one full nuclear weapon’s ...

Kairos Power is working with the Low Enriched Fuel Fabrication Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory to manufacture fuel ...

Perhaps most importantly, Germany developed gas centrifuges, which are more efficient than calutrons and gaseous diffusion ...

The enrichment method uses lasers to isolate U-235, the uranium isotope needed to create fuel for nuclear reactors. The lasers selectively excite U-235 isotopes, making it faster and easier to ...

A single kilogram of uranium-235 (the most popular fissile isotope of uranium) can theoretically produce the same amount of power as 1.5 million kilograms of coal. Nuclear fission also doesn’t ...