Part of a nuclear reactor fuel rod element. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has completed a study of advanced, better performing accident tolerant fuels being developed by three U.S. companies ...

If I mention nuclear reactor accidents, you’d probably think of Three Mile Island, Fukushima, or maybe Chernobyl (or, now, Chornobyl). But there have been others that, for whatever reason, aren’t as ...

When you think of a US Nuclear accident, you probably think of Three Mile Island. However, there have been over 50 accidents of varying severity in the US, with few direct casualties. (No one died ...

The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental ...

This Beebe symposium will explore how experiences from past nuclear plant accidents can be used to mitigate the consequences of future accidents, if they occur. A National Research Council committee ...

Heat transfer during severe accidents is a critical area of research that underpins the safety and resilience of nuclear reactors. In these scenarios, core degradation may lead to the formation of ...

Three major nuclear reactor accidents—Three Mile Island (1979 in the United States), Chernobyl (1986 in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union), and Fukushima Dai-ichi (2011 in Japan)—significantly ...

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have unveiled a breakthrough ...

Scientists in the U.S. have raised alarm over the expedited safety approval to construct a $10 billion, 345-megawatt experimental sodium-cooled fast nuclear reactor in Kemmerer, Wyoming. The Natrium ...

Experts from around the world have met in Japan to plan safer and more sustainable ways to operate research reactors, which play an essential part of the future of nuclear medicine, semiconductors and ...