The fission rate is kept in check with control rods, which are made ... other to develop a mobile reactor for military use, and NASA is revisiting the idea of nuclear-powered rockets.

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 ...

The first dismantling of a commercial reactor in Japan has started, ushering in a new period of decommissioning but with the ...

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 ...

The Micro–Physics Nuclear Reactor Simulator was developed by Nuclear Engineering ... of the core and transient calculations are available The transient conditions that can be simulated include: ...

Based on the size and configuration of standard PWR, the reactor has no moving parts other than the control rods and the fluid flow of the water coolant. The major cost of standard nuclear power ...

The federal nuclear safety regulator has authorized construction of an American small modular reactor (SMR) at the Darlington ...

The incident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power station in Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, happened when “a combination of equipment ...

Passive Decay Heat Removal system (PDHR), and Protection and Control System. Severe accidents include a station blackout (SBO): the users can initiate the SBO accident by loading SBO malfunction. It ...

Maybe. Powering homes? That’s another licence entirely Canadian nuclear regulators have approved an Ontario company's request ...

workers reactivated the No. 2 reactor by withdrawing the control rods that suppress nuclear fission. After confirming that the reactor has reached a critical state where nuclear fuel is sustaining ...