Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a ...

Lithium-6 is essential for producing nuclear fusion fuel, but isolating it from the much more common isotope, lithium-7, usually requires liquid mercury, which is extremely toxic. Now, researchers ...

Finland may soon become the first country to develop a permanent way to store spent nuclear fuel by burying it in tunnels deep underground. By Allison Prang Editor’s note: The Climate Fix is our ...

Washington stares down dangerous enriched uranium supply chain gap after agreeing to cut all Russian imports without a definite plan to replace crucial nuclear fuel needs.

Their tiny nuclear fuel pellets called triso fuel are said to be the size of poppy seeds and are meant to power a reactor by Rolls Royce the size of a “small car.” We aren’t sure if that’s ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a decades-old fight that tends to put Americans on edge even more than politics: where to store the nation’s spent nuclear fuel. The case ...

The court will hear a challenge to the government’s ability to license private companies to temporarily store that spent nuclear fuel. Texas and private companies want to be able to sue over that.

That's the nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania whose ... CEO Mike Laufer says that his reactors don't use fuel rods; they use fuel pebbles, about the size of golf balls – mostly graphite ...

Lithium-6 is essential for producing nuclear fusion fuel, but isolating it from the much more common isotope, lithium-7, ...