The third cycle of tests of MOX fuel in the MIR research reactor is to begin following the successful completion of the second phase of the programme which aims to substantiate the safety of MOX fuel ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has secured an order from Shikoku Electric Power to supply 24 MOX (mixed oxide fuel) assemblies for Unit 3 of the Ikata nuclear power station in Japan.

MOX is a means to "burn" the plutonium remaining in spent reactor fuel to provide energy and make electricity. MOX provides about 2 percent of the new fuel used today, but this proportion is ...

IKATA, Ehime Prefecture--Workers at Ikata nuclear power plant here started removing spent mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel from the No. 3 reactor following a delay due to a minor mishap. As it has yet to be ...

Years ago, pluthermal energy was viewed as a dream way for Japan to generate electricity with nuclear power plants using plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel. The beauty of the technology is ...

Unit 4 at Russia’s Beloyarsk NPP, which uses a BN-800 sodium-cooled fast neutron reactor has resumed operation after a ...

The UK’s plutonium stocks will be immobilised at Sellafield before eventually being sent for geological disposal ...

It applies to facilities that reprocess spent fuel and other material from nuclear power plants that use metallic and oxide fuels, including materials from mixed oxide (MOX) fuel and breeder reactors.

Advanced and innovative technologies are already implemented in a few countries to reprocess the spent fuel and recycle its usable materials, such as plutonium and uranium, through the fabrication and ...

The UK government has announced that the country's stockpile of some 140 tonnes of civil plutonium - currently stored at the ...