Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it ... which is high in the fissionable isotope uranium-235. These pellets are placed inside metal alloy tubes to form rods and the rods are gathered into ...

Today, nuclear fission is largely produced with fuel rods, which are skinny zirconium tubes packed with uranium pellets. The fission rate is kept in check with control rods, which are made of ...

The first batch of nuclear fuel pellets with uranium levels enriched to eight percent was pressed at Westinghouse Electric ...

Their tiny nuclear fuel pellets called triso fuel are said to be the size of poppy seeds and are meant to power a reactor by Rolls Royce the size of a “small car.” We aren’t sure if that’s ...

A First Nation in northern Ontario is challenging the selection of an area township as the site of a deep geological ...