Answering the big tritium question
Since 2000, fusion has evolved from a single global project, ITER (the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), to dozens of competing…
Fuel & Fuel Cycle
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Transforming the spent fuel story
What if the future of clean, sustainable energy was locked inside something we’ve mislabeled for decades as “waste”? It sounds…
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Urenco’s HALEU ambitions
In January this year the UK government announced a £300m (US$393m) funding programme to develop a High Assay Low Enriched…
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Reflections on the Russian LEU ban
On 30 April, the US Senate passed the Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act (HR 1042). On 13 May, President Biden…
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HALEU UF6 and SMR fuel fabrication
Most advanced or established reactor concepts can be designed as small modular reactors (SMRs). Considering fuels, the four main SMR…
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Audits and the waste data trail
Nuclear governance comprises a complex web of obligations from the local to national, bilateral, regional and international levels applied at…
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INL’s microreactor: A MARVEL machine
Led by Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the Microreactor Applications Research Validation and EvaLuation (MARVEL) project is a liquid-metal cooled microreactor with…
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The case for a nuclear Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan faces a growing electrical power deficit, largely due to aging thermal power facilities from the Soviet era that desperately…
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Commercialising fusion technology
The UK’s Fusion Centre at UKAEA is “in good health” a recent government assessment concluded. It said the organisation “has effective leadership and mechanisms in…
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Nuclear’s pursuit of synfuels
Governments are increasingly recognising that net zero solutions must be found and implemented urgently in order to meet global decarbonisation…
