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Experimental Advanced Fuel Rods Loaded in Russian Nuclear Reactor

The first Russian-made nuclear reactor fuel bundles with experimental ATF (Advanced Technology Fuel) rods have been loaded into Unit 2 at the Rostov nuclear power plant (NPP) in southwest Russia. The ...
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70% Nuclear Rods Damaged on Fukushima Reactor 1, 33% Damaged on Reactor 2, Partial Reactor Core Melting Possible

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)—the company that runs the Fukushima nuclear plants—says that 70% of the fuel rods have been damaged on the reactor 1 and 33% have been damaged on reactor 2. “The ...
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Lightbridge wins US patent notice for next-gen nuclear fuel assemblies

Lightbridge Corporation has secured a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a patent application ...
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Russians Achieve Milestone with New Nuclear Fuel

Rosatom announced that it has started the fourth irradiation cycle of fuel assemblies with VVER-type fuel rods in the MIR research reactor (Figure 1) at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in ...

‘The deadliest blob on Earth’: Why Chornobyl’s 2000-kilogram Elephant’s Foot still can’t be destroyed

Beneath the ruins of Reactor 4 at Chornobyl, there is a hidden but very dangerous nuclear mass called the Elephant's Foot.
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Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety of U.S. Nuclear Plants

This chapter is intended to provide non-expert readers with basic information about nuclear power plant 1 design, operation, and regulation in Japan and the United States. This information will be ...