The United States is unlikely to allow South Korea to use the "pyroprocessing" technology to recycle spent nuclear fuel even after a joint study is completed in 2021 because the technology will make ...

South Korea has elected a new president, Moon Jae-in, a liberal who will lead a country that faces an array of daunting economic challenges. One of the first orders of business for South Korea’s new ...

Such an increase would be even higher if it were not for the country’s 20 nuclear reactors, which generated a little more than one-third of the country’s total electricity in 2008. According to that ...

Nuclear power may be the answer to our energy problems, but if that's true, why are we tossing out the fuel rods when they ...

Wi Sung-lac, head of the presidential Office of National Security, said in a KBS interview on the 26th that discussions between Korea and the United States are underway to give Korea more authority ...

A US startup has joined forces with the nation’s first national laboratory to recycle ...

Transmutation of transuranics (TRUs) and fission products that are recovered from spent fuel offers potential for improving the technology for long-term disposal of ...

Concerns have been raised that South Korea's inclusion on the sensitive country list designated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) may complicate the approval for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Hyun has announced a basic agreement with the U.S. on easing restrictions on Korea in uranium enrichment and the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. He said this in an ...

Outdone only by nuclear fusion, the process of nuclear fission releases enormous amounts of energy. The ‘spicy rocks’ that are at the core of both natural and artificial fission reactors are generally ...