For the second time in three harrowing days, a hydrogen explosion at one of Japan’s crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant blew the roof off a containment building — this time on ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's nuclear safety agency says 70 percent of the nuclear fuel rods in an earthquake-stricken reactor may have been damaged following an explosion. An agency spokesman, Minoru Ohgoda, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The high level of radiation in water flooding the basement of a building housing the No.2 reactor at Japan's tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is likely to be due to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A France-based firm has achieved a new milestone with its PROtect Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (E-ATF) technology, which ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea has begun moving fresh fuel rods into a reactor, another step in reactivating nuclear facilities that could produce weapons, a South Korean news agency said today.

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 ...

Since the construction of the first commercial light water nuclear power plants (LWR) the design of their fuel rods hasn’t changed significantly. Mechanically robust and corrosion-resistant zirconium ...

Three fuel assemblies with uranium-plutonium REMIX fuel have completed their third 18-month VVER-1000 fuel cycle at Russia's ...

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 ...