At 1:23 and 48 seconds on April 26, 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded - and then ...
Burnable absorbers are key components in modern nuclear reactor design, serving to mitigate the excess reactivity inherent in fresh reactor cores while simultaneously enhancing operational safety and ...
Top of an RBMK at the Leningrad plant. Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all make perfect sense to a trained ...
From molten salt to TRISO fuel, here’s how technological advancements could upend an old power technology. Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive ...
Belgium’s Tihange Nuclear Power Plant unit 3 will have its control rod system modernised over several years after Framatome was selected by Engie's Electrabel to carry out the work. Unit 3 is the last ...