Research reactor fuel cycle The fuel cycle of research reactors is similar to that of most power reactors, including all steps from fuel fabrication to spent fuel management. The IAEA assists Member ...

As investigations continue into thecondition of wire windings in the boiler closure units (BCUs) of someof British Energy's (BE's) Advanced Gas Reactors (AGRs), the companyannounced that a damaged ...

The defueling of the first of two reactors at the Hunterston B advanced gas-cooled reactor nuclear power plant in the UK has been completed on time and on budget, EDF Energy announced. Hunterston B ...

Using currently known uranium resources, "fast reactors operating in a closed fuel cycle would be able to provide energy for thousands of years as well as easing concerns about waste," says Stefano ...

The Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) Fuel Program, initiated by the Department of Energy in 2002, used INL's unique Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) in a nearly three-year experiment to subject more than ...

French-based global power developer EDF Energy vowed to put all seven of its advanced gas-cooled reactor nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom into the defueling and decommissioning stages ...

Advanced Gas-cooled reactors (AGR’s) are a British thermal reactor design developed in the early 1960s as a successor to the Magnox reactor. The fuel assemblies are cooled using Carbon dioxide, with ...

The agreement means Cavendish Nuclear will continue to provide fuel route and other services for EDF Energy’s seven advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGR) for the remainder of their operating lives ...

A Russian energy firm has started the operation of fifth-generation nuclear fuel assemblies, which have been loaded into the VVER-1200 reactor core of Novovoronezh.

Westinghouse supplied the world’s first commercial pressurized water reactor in 1957 and the company’s technology is the basis for nearly one-half of the world's operating nuclear plants.

EDF Energy has announced a ten-year life extensionfor Dungeness B nuclear reactor. The two-unit advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) plant will continue generating electricity until 2028. The company has ...

The Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) Fuel Program, initiated by the Department of Energy in 2002, used INL's unique Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) in a nearly three-year experiment to subject more than ...