home.social

#nuclearfuel — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nuclearfuel, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Radiation changes hardness and stiffness in nuclear fuel, study finds

    Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have measured the mechanical properties of irradiated…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #advancedreactors #gasreactors #haleu #irradiation #nuclearfuel #OakRidgeNationalLaboratory #Science #siliconcarbide #TRISOfuel
    newsbeep.com/us/836793/

  2. Radiation changes hardness and stiffness in nuclear fuel, study finds

    Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have measured the mechanical properties of irradiated…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #advancedreactors #gasreactors #HALEU #irradiation #nuclearfuel #oakridgenationallaboratory #Science #siliconcarbide #TRISOfuel #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/760278/

  3. Radiation changes hardness and stiffness in nuclear fuel, study finds

    Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have measured the mechanical properties of irradiated…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #advancedreactors #AU #Australia #gasreactors #haleu #irradiation #nuclearfuel #oakridgenationallaboratory #Science #siliconcarbide #TRISOfuel
    newsbeep.com/au/880310/

  4. Radiation changes hardness and stiffness in nuclear fuel, study finds

    Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have measured the mechanical properties of irradiated…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #advancedreactors #AU #Australia #gasreactors #haleu #irradiation #nuclearfuel #oakridgenationallaboratory #Science #siliconcarbide #TRISOfuel
    newsbeep.com/au/880310/

  5. EU’s unclear stance on Russian nuclear fuel holds back investments, Urenco CEO says

    By Kate Abnett and Forrest Crellin BRUSSELS/PARIS, Aug 13 (Reuters) – Uncertainty over whether the European Union will…
    #Europe #EU #BorisSchucht #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #nuclearfuel #uraniumenrichment #Urenco
    europesays.com/europe/115258/

  6. SimplyInfo.org: 15th Anniversary Report #FukushimaDaiichi

    March 2, 2026

    Excerpt: "This TV Asahi investigative report from March 2025 [linked below] paints a sobering picture of the enormous challenges still facing the decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi, fourteen years after the accident. While #TEPCO achieved a milestone the previous November by extracting roughly 0.7 grams of #NuclearFuel debris for the first time, experts interviewed for the piece emphasized that debris removal is just one piece of a far more complex puzzle. Around 1,000 fuel assemblies
    still remain in the spent fuel pools of Units 1 and 2, untouched since the accident, and officials from the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (#NDF) described clearing these pools as the single most urgent priority — in part because another
    #earthquake or #tsunami could strike at any time.

    "Before large-scale debris removal can even begin, the area around the reactor buildings must be cleared of heavily contaminated structures and exhaust stacks to make room for the massive equipment required. Because humans cannot safely approach the highly radioactive debris, all removal work must be done remotely. Radiation levels outside the buildings remain dangerously high — a dosimeter near #Unit2 showed particularly elevated readings — and contaminated water continues to be generated at a rate of roughly 80 tons per day as #rainwater and #groundwater contact radioactive materials on site, despite TEPCO having already released about 80,000 tons of treated [but still radioactive] water into the ocean.

    "Perhaps the most troubling concern raised in the article is what happens to the debris and #RadioactiveWaste after it is removed. Hiroshi Miyano, chairman of the Decommissioning Review Committee of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, was blunt in his criticism, saying no serious thought has been given to managing this waste over the coming century or two.

    "The Fukushima debris is uniquely complicated because it is a mixture of melted nuclear fuel and structural materials, and experts warned that removal may not even be possible until a concrete disposal plan is in place. General decommissioning superintendent Toyoshi Fukada warned that without proper storage facilities ready in advance, the entire decommissioning effort could eventually grind to a halt simply because there would be nowhere to put the waste."

    Read more:
    simplyinfo.org/2026/03/simplyi

    Asashi investigative report [pdf]:
    dropbox.com/scl/fi/ysaf6a7hj62

    #FukushimaIsntOver #TEPCOLies #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukes #NoNukesForAI #RenewablesNow #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #NuclearPlants #NuclearDisaster #Remember311

  7. MIT model predicts nuclear waste behavior deep underground for eons

    Nuclear energy projects are on the rise today globally to move the dependence from fossil fuels to cleaner…
    #NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Finland #MontTerri #Nuclear #nuclearfuel #nuclearrepository #nuclearwaste #Onkalo #Science #Switzerland #us
    newsbeep.com/au/4464/

  8. > U.S. Reenters the #NuclearFuel Game

    > #HALEU is needed instead for reactors with more creative coolants and fuels, which are trying to achieve very compact core sizes. These include #Bellevue, #Washington–based #TerraPower’s #sodiumCooled #fastReactor, #Rockville, #Maryland –based #Xenergy’s #highTemperature gas reactor, and #Alameda, #California–based #KairosPower’s #fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature #reactor.

    spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-powe

    #nuclear #electricity #nuclearEnergy #energy