Crews worked round the clock for two weeks, purifying graphite and uranium, arranging the blocks in 57 layers of precise positions, and fitting holes for cadmium control rods. They finished on the ...

Nuclear reactors are controversial with the public, but they generate enormous amounts of power compared to the alternatives.

vice president of GA-EMS Nuclear Technologies and Materials. The next phase of testing will involve full-size, 12-foot-long SiGA rods. These will be tested in commercial reactors to gather real ...

Nuclear fuel rods are usually immersed in some sort of coolant, typically water, and reactors also use control rods made of ...

While other reactors rely on control rods which can lead to overheating ... flux they produced which could be harnessed to make nuclear isotopes. Overall though they did not have the qualities ...

Korea allows Hanul Unit 4 restart after inspection confirms reactor head suitability Nuclear safety regulators greenlight ...

On Oct. 29 at 7 p.m., Tohoku Electric Power Co. workers reactivated the No. 2 reactor by withdrawing the control rods that suppress nuclear fission. After confirming that the reactor has reached ...