The dispute over uranium enrichment is the flashpoint in U.S.-Iran talks, with Tehran refusing to scale back and Washington warning of weaponization.

Costain, an infrastructure solutions provider, has been awarded a contract to design a high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU ...

Centrus Energy reported a consecutive stellar quarter, with its transition to uranium enrichment progressing on schedule.

Southern Nuclear recently loaded four lead test assemblies containing Westinghouse Electric Company's ADOPT fuel pellets, enriched up to 6 weight percent of uranium 235, into the reactor. The higher ...

Natural uranium is only about 0.7% uranium-235 (U₂₃₅ ... a new recipe is needed to make the uranium pellets that go into the fuel rods. LEU fuels are essentially a uranium ceramic, but ...

The powder was converted into fuel pellets and assembled into fuel rods before being shipped to the Vogtle site. In addition to higher uranium-235 enrichment, the fuel pellets include special ...

and enriched to make fuel. Enriched uranium-235 has high energy density, which makes it a strong contender for energy production: 1 uranium pellet (the size of a pencil eraser) has as much energy as ...

While both TerraPower and BWXT will use enriched uranium 235, the fuel cores manufactured for each facility are ... They are about the size of a ball point pen, and look a bit like tiny BB gun pellets ...

A new European Union research project, EU-CONVERSION, has been launched to accelerate using high-performance nuclear fuels, such as low-enriched uranium fissile materials. The project hopes to ...

LIS Technologies, which stands for Laser Isotope Separation, is developing lasers to excite and extract the uranium-235 isotope that ... in work orders for nuclear fuel. Its team has more than ...

which primarily produce uranium dioxide (UO₂) ceramic pellet fuel with enrichments below 5% U-235, categorized as Category III material. The pellets are typically stacked into zircaloy tubes ...