When Sweden's spent nuclear fuel is to be permanently stored, it will be protected by three different barriers. Even if all three barriers are damaged, the nuclear fuel will not dissolve into the groundwater, according to a new doctoral dissertation from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory, in partnership with three other science and engineering powerhouses, reached a major domestic milestone relating to nuclear fuel performance on March 8.

Russia says it has made its eighth and last fuel delivery for Iran's nuclear power plant at Bushehr.

Iran's official news agency says the country has received a seventh shipment of nuclear fuel from Russia for its first atomic power plant.

Russia has delivered more than half the fuel for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, after a fourth consignment arrived.

The UN nuclear watchdog has approved the quality of Russian nuclear fuel due to be delivered to an Iranian nuclear power plant, a Russian nuclear fuel supplier said on Friday.

Russia and the UN nuclear agency will start work on November 26 to prepare for nuclear fuel deliveries to Iran's Bushehr NPP, the Islamic Republic's vice president and nuclear chief said.

The top scientists who advise the US Government have poured cold water on a key element of a nuclear energy plan actively supported by President George W Bush and allies like Australia's Prime Minister John Howard.

Tehran distrusts a U.S. initiative to create an international nuclear fuel bank, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council said Thursday.

The Indian government has approved a deal on technical details of a widely-publicized civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with the United States, the foreign minister said Wednesday.

Russia's nuclear agency said Wednesday that nuclear fuel Moscow has pledged to supply to a nuclear power plant being built in Iran will definitely be returned to Russia and will not end up in the wrong hands.

U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns has completed talks in New Delhi on a ground-breaking deal for the United States to supply India with peacetime nuclear fuel. VOA's Steve Herman reports from New Delhi that while progress is reported, negotiators say no deal has been accomplished - yet.