Lightbridge Corp (NASDAQ:LTBR) shares are surging Wednesday after the company announced a significant milestone in its nuclear fuel development efforts. What Happened: Lightbridge on Wednesday said it ...

RESTON, Va., Feb. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lightbridge Corporation (Lightbridge), an advanced nuclear fuel technology company, today announced a significant milestone in its innovative nuclear ...

The major goal of the this CRP is to develop experimental procedures for the reproducible measurements of delayed hydride cracking velocity of zirconium alloy cladding tubes so that consistent ...

Even the best alloys can't last forever, so we applied statistical thermodynamics to materials science and found a better way to dope zirconium alloys to use in fuel rod cladding. Share on Facebook ...

Spent nuclear fuel is hot stuff. It’s thermally hot — about 400 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s not residual heat from when the fuel was in the reactor, it’s decay heat from fission products with ...

The current fleet of nuclear reactors runs primarily on uranium (U) fuel enriched up to 5% U-235, but advanced reactor ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a collection of expert commentary on nuclear safety published on the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, produced in a collaboration between the Project ...

Noting the series of spectacular hydrogen explosions at the site, the MIT release says that “hydrogen buildup was the result of hot steam coming into contact with overheated nuclear fuel rods covered ...

In another significant boost to commercial deployment of accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) at existing nuclear reactors, the first 18-month fuel cycle test of Framatome’s GAIA Enhanced Accident Tolerant ...

The finding that nitrogen can combine with oxygen in zirconia to form NO molecules may lead to safer materials for nuclear reactors. The finding that nitrogen can combine with oxygen in zirconia to ...

A way of making zirconium alloys used in the cladding of nuclear assemblies more resistant to hydrogen, which can lead to embrittlement, has been investigated by researchers at the Massachusetts ...

Even the best alloys can't last forever, so we applied statistical thermodynamics to materials science and found a better way to dope zirconium alloys to use in fuel rod cladding. Share on Facebook ...