Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have definitively answered a long-standing question: the tiny, natural pores inside graphite blocks do not affect the material’s performance as a ...

Graphite is a key structural component in some of the world's oldest nuclear reactors and many of the next-generation designs being built today. But it also condenses and swells in response to ...

Graphite dust is generated as a by-product of normal operations in high temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs), predominantly arising from mechanical wear of graphite-based components. Typically ...

Decommissioning of the ADE-2 water-cooled uranium-graphite thermal neutron reactor has begun at the Mining and Chemical Combine in Zheleznogorsk, in the Krasnoyarsk region of Russia, Rosatom has ...

Terrestrial Energy and NRG-Pallas are starting the final phase of the graphite irradiation testing programme for Terrestrial's molten salt reactor at the High Flux Reactor in Petten, the Netherlands.

Graphite has been used as a moderator and reflector of neutrons in more than 100 nuclear power plants and in many research and plutonium-production reactors, in quantities ranging from a few kilograms ...

Ivan Selin, former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, came to town from his home in Miami, Florida in early October to start a discussion about which ...

ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--X-energy Reactor Company, LLC (“X-energy” or “the Company”) today announced a Definitive Supply Agreement with Toyo Tanso USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Toyo Tanso Co., ...

The first European pressurized water reactors are expected to be switched on next year, but they have been hit by redesigns, cost hikes and delays, as Michael Banks reports Waiting game Hinkley Point ...