isotropic fuel Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:17:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Tristructural-Isotropic Fuel Makes Nuclear Reactors Much Safer And Robust https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tristructural-isotropic-fuel-makes-nuclear-reactors-much-safer-robust-20131003/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tristructural-isotropic-fuel-makes-nuclear-reactors-much-safer-robust-20131003/#respond Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:34:24 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=42201 Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have found that tristructural-isotropic (TRISO) fuel is much safer and robust than any other nuclear fuel when used in nuclear reactors. This breakthrough the team made by analyzing isolated individual particles, which secrete cesium, using a specially designed computer-controlled […]

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