Nuclear fuel rods that work more efficiently, last much longer, and minimize nuclear waste may soon help generate more sustainable energy sources. Interesting Engineering shared the latest development ...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are centralizing their nuclear materials research within ...

Satellite images that have shown some recent activity around two Iranian nuclear sites bombed last year by Israel and the U.S ...

Handle with care Fuel rods being loaded into a reactor core at the Chooz B1 nuclear power station. Several other French reactors were shut down in late 2016 due to material defects in key components. ...

A better framework to optimize discovery of materials suitable for use in nuclear reactors could help the U.S. meet its clean energy goals. Nickel-based alloys, critical materials used in many ...

Few scientific fields display more breadth and depth than nuclear materials—a topic that deals with almost everything that touches on nuclear reactions. Scientists coming from many diverse disciplines ...

Iranian leaders are not pursuing a nuclear weapons program but have the capacity to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear device in a matter of weeks, according to the Department of Defense.

A new IAEA publication on the security of nuclear and other radioactive material in transport has been released. “It is essential that nuclear and other radioactive material is managed securely and is ...

Is permanent storage the only strategy for dealing with nuclear waste? No, says Prof. Kristina Kvashnina of the Helmholtz-Zentrum-Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). With the aid of new EU funding, she wants ...

What Is China Really Doing in Greenland? Fact-Checking Trump’s Arctic Claims Last week, Britain’s counterterrorism police opened an investigation into a package containing uranium that was seized at ...