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Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cladding: Innovative Materials Enhance Fleet Safety and Performance
As if being stuck in the middle of a combat zone isn’t sufficiently nerve-racking, workers at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant—under Russian occupation since last March—must now concern themselves with having access to enough water to keep the facility safe.
IAEA: Chernobyl drone strike latest threat to nuclear safety in Ukraine
Social media this past weekend streamed with reactionary posts following a drone strike last Friday at the site of the destroyed reactor from the 1986 Chernobyl accident. The drone—armed...
Uranium futures recalibrated in January, partly due to DeepSeek
Uranium futures took a sharp plunge below $69 per pound in late January, to a low of about $67 on January 27, before climbing back to $71.35 on January 31, according to Trading Economics. The...
Core Power, Glosten partner to develop U.S. floating nuclear plant
A team of innovative companies has plans to bring floating nuclear power plants to U.S. ports.Core Power, a maritime and nuclear technology company, announced in January a new partnership in...
IAEA convoy hit by Russian drone
A drone targeted and damaged an official vehicle of the International Atomic Energy Agency on December 10 as it traveled toward the front line in eastern Ukraine during a rotation of IAEA...
Argonne investigates industrial SMR applications for postwar Ukraine
Argonne National Laboratory will play a leading role in planning and rebuilding a nuclear-generated clean energy infrastructure for postwar Ukraine as part of the lab’s focus on developing...
Six Ukrainian reactors reduce power following military campaign
The International Atomic Energy Agency has reported that Ukraine’s operating nuclear power plants reduced electricity production yesterday morning as a precautionary measure following...
Uranium prices continue downward trend
Uranium prices have fallen to their lowest level in more than a month, to just under $79 per pound, on Friday, November 1, according to analyst website Trading Economics. The lower prices,...
IAEA warning issued after assassination of Zaporizhzhia worker
A man killed in a car bomb last week in Enerhodar, Ukraine, may have been targeted because of his ties to Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.The International Atomic Energy Agency received...
Uranium prices see increase as October begins
Uranium prices reached $81.9 per pound on October 1, the highest level in more than a month, according to online information source Trading Economics. The company reported that the last time...
Chernobyl-area land deemed safe for new agriculture
More than 80 percent of the territory that has been surveyed around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant “can be returned to agricultural production,” said Valery Kashparov, director of the...