Nuclear fuel consists of rods, a few meters 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 ...

Since the construction of the first commercial light water nuclear power plants (LWR) the design of their fuel rods hasn’t changed significantly. Mechanically robust and corrosion-resistant ...

The discovery of nuclear fission in ... rating in each of those three cross-section categories, which at least partially explains why it makes for such a poor fuel for a LWR.

The tests involved exposing unfueled SiGA cladded rods to the ... operation and longer fuel lifetimes. This translates to increased efficiency and reduced costs for nuclear power plants.