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New Study Investigates Possibility of Replacing Nuclear Power with Wind Power in Sweden

The Swedish power supply is largely free of carbon emissions. Indeed, it is mainly based on a combination of hydroelectric and nuclear power combined with power exchange with neighbouring Scandinavian countries.

22 Jun 2016

New Study Investigates Possibility of Replacing Nuclear Power with Wind Power

14 Jun 2016

New Plasma Mass Filtering Method to Process Nuclear Waste

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are proposing a new way to process nuclear waste that would reduce both the cost of disposal and the byproducts from the process.

14 Dec 2015

Simplified Approach to Packaging and Disposal of Intermediate Level Waste at Sellafield

The research, which focussed on the chemical behaviours of intermediate level waste (ILW) at the site, unearthed previously unknown information about the long-term corrosion behaviours of magnesium and uranium.

27 Oct 2015

US DOE Awards $1.5 Million Grant to Kansas State University to Upgrade Nuclear Reactor

Kansas State University's nuclear reactor control console in Ward Hall will be getting a much-needed upgrade, funded by a $1.5 million Nuclear Engineering University Partnerships grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

30 Sep 2015

Deep Borehole Concept Holds Promise for Disposing High Level Nuclear Waste

Scientists at the University of Sheffield calculate that all of the UK's high level nuclear waste from spent fuel reprocessing could be disposed of in just six boreholes 5km deep, fitting within a site no larger than a football pitch.

16 Apr 2015

CsTolen A Compound Helps Protect Crops from Radiation-Contaminated Soil

Almost four years after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, farmland remains contaminated with higher-than-natural levels of radiocesium in some regions of Japan, with cesium-134 and cesium-137 being the most troublesome because of the slow rate at which they decay.

6 Mar 2015

New Study on Role of Nuclear Power in Europe

A project investigating the role of nuclear power on the energy map of Europe is about to be started in the Lappeenranta University of Technology, LUT. The study will involve, in total, 26 European countries and is the most extensive project studying nuclear power in Europe. It is the first to form a comprehensive picture on the role of nuclear power in Europe.

3 Mar 2015

Westinghouse and Energoatom to Increase Fuel Deliveries to Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plants

Westinghouse Electric Company and the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company (NNEGC Energoatom) today agreed to significantly increase fuel deliveries to Ukrainian nuclear power plants through 2020. This increased cooperation between Westinghouse and Energoatom will bring diversification and security of nuclear fuel supplies for Ukraine’s reactor fleet.

31 Dec 2014

Research on MOFs for Extracting Uranium from Seawater Wins DoE Award

Scientists have long known that seawater contains small concentrations of valuable metals, but a technologically feasible extraction method has remained elusive. The University of Chicago's Carter Abney, a graduate student in chemistry, has been developing materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to help address the problem.

31 Oct 2014