They’re the source of the fission reaction that makes nuclear plants work. Fuel rods are long metal tubes filled with uranium that’s been formed into pellets. When these rods are placed inside ...

The byproduct of nuclear energy is still associated with atomic bombs or nuclear meltdowns, but what comes out of reactors is ...

DeepGEO, a multinational spent nuclear fuel (SNF) repository developer, and Copenhagen Atomics, a Danish advanced thorium ...

Spent nuclear fuel pools are designed to cool fuel rods after they come out of a nuclear reactor. While powering a nuclear reactor, these fuel rods become very, very hot (2,800 degrees Celsius ...

Spent fuel rods, the byproduct of electric generation at nuclear power plants, have very specific disposal requirements given the heat and radiation they will give off for thousands of years after ...

The spent fuel – metal rods containing uranium pellets – are “boringly safe” when sealed correctly, Murray said. The waste from nuclear energy poses so little danger, a person would need ...