Advanced nuclear concepts currently in development have the potential for improved cost competitiveness, inherent safety, enhanced flexibility and deployability, more manageable waste streams, and increased proliferation resistance. Successful deployment of such technologies may dramatically alter the energy landscape of the future, and accelerating their development will be necessary so that they can meaningfully contribute to

Although solutions to the disposal and management of spent nuclear fuel have proven elusive for virtually all nuclear power countries, Sweden is among the most furthest along in solving this problem. Under Swedish law, license holders are responsible for ensuring the safe management and final disposal of radioactive materials and waste. Thus, Swedish utilities collectively

Growing global energy demand and carbon mitigation challenges together drive increasing interest in nuclear power globally, even as the world continues to deal with the aftereffects of the Fukushima accident. With China’s potential to become a dominant civil nuclear vendor and significant difficulties for nuclear energy in U.S. power markets, the imperatives for international cooperation

The uranium fuel market is weak from commercial and technical issues ranging from a small supply chain, to an overabundance of supply met with too little demand. Prices have dropped low enough that conversion plants have begun to temporarily halt production to allow the prices to recover. The current state of the nuclear fuel market