China could power ahead of the US in the moon race thanks to a few structural differences in its lunar base reactor, engineers say Chinese nuclear engineers have discovered a critical inefficiency ...

Chinese nuclear engineers from the China ... below 1,112 Fahrenheit (600 degrees Celsius). Three boron carbide safety rods and eight rotary control drums provide redundant shutdown mechanisms.

Dismantling of the reactor takes place in the third of the four phases in decommissioning nuclear installations ... be structured classified according to contamination levels: L1 (control rods), L2 ...

It’s dotted with blank holes missing the control drums to control the rate of the reaction, shutdown rods to bring the nuclear chain ... Once assembled, the entire nuclear reactor would fit on the ...

Moving toward the goal of having an operational molten salt nuclear reactor in the next decade, Southern Company and the ...

Argonne National Lab has an AI-based tool that can help design and operate nuclear reactors—at a time when AI itself is feeding a power frenzy.

As part of a major modernisation and life extension project at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear power plant critical ...