The last year has seen many different challenges and issues with regard to nuclear energy, on economic, environmental, security and global levels. Non-proliferation has also been high on the agenda, as ever, with events in and around the Korean Peninsula keeping all sides, as well as the IAEA, concerned...

The whole function process of a nuclear reactor begins inside the core of the reactor itself. The central source of power is heat energy generated by a controlled chain reaction of nuclear fission, produced by either uranium or plutonium. Either of these elements when struck by a neutron will subsequently...

The origins of nuclear power can be traced back to the work of Ernest Rutherford, often referred to as the father of nuclear physics. Rutherford is credited with having split the atom in 1917, after which his research team made attempts to split atom nuclei artificially, using a particle accelerator. Development...

Base Fuels Nuclear fuel refers to any fuel that is consumed or used as the driving force for nuclear energy, most often generated through a fission process where the fuel’s atomic elements are forcibly divided in order to produce energy. This fuel typically has to have highly fissionable elements...

Nuclear energy refers to the process of producing power as a result of the fission of atomic particles in radioactive matter such as uranium. The resulting energy released by the fission of the particles creates an energy discharge that is fed into various turbines in order to produce electricity. To...