Orano USA and Washington-based start-up Curio have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on multiple ...

The nuclear fuel cycle is the series of industrial processes that turns uranium into electricity. Claire Maden takes a look ...

However, between the 1950s and 1970s, the US Department of Energy enriched some reprocessed uranium extracted from spent reactor fuel in order to reclaim the U-235 that did not fission. Unlike natural ...

2.Recycling Solutions and U.S. Offtake for Curio's NuCycle Materials Orano will assess the most efficient recycling solutions for reprocessed uranium hexafluoride (UF6) and other valuable products ...

After uranium fuel is used up, it can either be reprocessed or put into permanent storage. A nuclear reactor works in the same way that a concentrated solar plant with mirrors or a coal plant does ...

e.g. by means of high burnup fuels as well as the recycling of plutonium and reprocessed uranium. The safety requirements applied to the core materials of nuclear reactors are extremely high, which ...

radioactive material is reprocessed. In a company video, a senior employee explicitly says: “After processing, nuclear engineers receive uranium oxide […]. It is used for building atomic bombs ...