Nuclear Power & Engineering

Multi-Physics Modelling (MPM) is an innovative simulation technique that looks very promising for the employment in the field of nuclear engineerin...

Energy demand in the United States is expected to continue to grow over the coming decades, and the Department of Energy (DOE) considers nuclear en...

The nuclear industry is in a state of flux. Proclamations of a nuclear renaissance have given way to predictions of the industry''''s ultimate decl...

The 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station led to serious radioactive contamination of the environment. Due to transportation...

Uranium is a naturally occurring, ubiquitous heavy metal. In various chemical forms, natural uranium is found in all soils, rocks, seas and oceans....

With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the ...

The importance of the radioactive minerals occurring at the Pocos de Caldas plateau for the establishment of the Brazilian Nuclear Energy Program h...

Global inventories of spent nuclear fuel are expected to increase substantially in future years. Because of the widely accepted international princ...

A nuclear detonation in the United States is one of the most catastrophic incidents imaginable. While the United States Government is working domes...

The United States has focused its past efforts on disposing spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level waste (HLW) in a geologic repository. Recently,...

A major concern about the global expansion of nuclear power is the potential spread of nuclear fuel cycle technology (particularly uranium enrichme...

The March 2011 accident at Japan''''s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant led to a worldwide review of nuclear power programs. NRC licenses and o...