The nuclear fuel cycle is the series of industrial processes that turns uranium into electricity. Claire Maden takes a look ...

And if that wasn't enough to give a nuclear engineer a haunted look, there's the problem of fabricating the fuel for the reactor. You can't use metallic uranium like in conventional fuel rods.

Studies of workers exposed to uranium in the nuclear fuel cycle have also been carried out ... With time, chemical weathering will cause the metallic DU of penetrators in the ground to corrode and ...

Additionally, thorium is also being investigated as a potential alternate source of nuclear fuel. Managing the uranium production cycle in a responsible manner involves a number of aspects: the ...

effectively closing the nuclear fuel cycle. From the beginning the Superphénix faced strong political resistance by anti-nuclear groups, with the closure of this prototype reactor in 1998 ...

As an improvisation, by using thorium irradiated along with HALEU in the PHWRs at scale, the spent fuel produced can then be ...