The nuclear fuel used in NPPs today has changed little since the initial deployment of nuclear power more than half a century ago. The fuel design for water-cooled reactors since the dawn of the nuclear power industry has been based on ceramic uranium oxide (UO2) fuel pellets, enriched to less than 5% U-235, contained in zirconium-alloy cladding tubes. While continuous incremental improvements have been made on this basic fuel design, and modern commercial nuclear fuel outperforms the original fuel, modern … read more »
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