April 10 (UPI) --For the first time, nuclear fuel enriched above 5% will be irradiated in a commercial U.S. reactor, the Department of Energy announced Thursday. "The higher enrichment levels ...

Since the construction of the first commercial light water nuclear ... ceramic fuel pellets, which get assembled into fuel assemblies for loading into the reactor. A 12′ SiGa fuel assembly ...

Nuclear fuel consists of rods, a few metres long and containing uranium, which are gathered into an assembly to act as a fuel element. The PGET instrument can produce an exact cross-section image of ...