Kyiv has rejected a report that suggested that it could develop a nuclear bomb quickly, using plutonium from spent nuclear ...

If you’ve ever wanted to operate your own nuclear reactor ... you’ve operated a reactor before. You have to balance the control rods, the coolant pumping, and the steam output to produce ...

Small modular nuclear reactors long seemed like moonshots with lots of promise but not enough commercial interest. That ...

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 ...

Here all the information required to operate the “nuclear plant ... position of the control rods. To play the game, if one can call it that, you must keep the virtual reactor going at peak ...

These reactors shut down, as the control rods were automatically inserted to dampen the nuclear reaction (SCRAM). At least two reactors experienced a station blackout, which prevented the cooling ...

ABC Audio's new podcast series reexamines the mysterious death of the whistleblower Karen Silkwood, a 28-year-old plutonium ...

Kansai Electric Power Co.'s No. 1 reactor at the Takahama plant first went online in 1974. At 3 p.m. on July 28, work began to pull out the control rods that suppress nuclear fission inside the ...

A nuclear reactor works in the same way that a concentrated ... rods—which are replaced every 12 to 24 months—and these control rods are manipulated to slow or accelerate the reaction.

The restart of the boiling water reactor will be the second of such units since reactors of the same type were crippled in ...

What is a Pebble-bed Module nuclear reactor? Conventional nuclear reactors use fuel rods that are energy-dense, containing ...

The mission is not over until the sample's radioactivity is below a set standard and safely placed into a container ...