Confession number one: Before I immersed myself in this month's special-section articles on nuclear fuel, my knowledge of the subject was ... how shall I put it... something less than all-encompassing. I mean, I had the basic, Nuclear Fuel 101 stuff down—uranium is mined, milled, converted, enriched, made into fuel pellets, and loaded into fuel rods, which are then bundled to create fuel assemblies—but that was about it. In my own, some might say feeble, defense, prior to my current role as Nuclear News's editor-in-chief, I was the magazine's policy and legislation guy, security guy, and NRC oversight guy. I was never the fuel guy.
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