Environmental management team members are priming three support facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for demolition in the near future. UCOR, the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental ...

The mayor of Chicago and other elected officials were not notified. The reactor itself, nicknamed “Chicago Pile-1” or CP-1 for short, was a 20-foot-tall pile of graphite blocks studded with hundreds ...

Meanwhile, colleagues developed a recipe for converting either the particles or the char into graphite inside an ...

Magnox reactors, such as Wylfa and Oldbury, use a loose stack of several thousand graphite bricks to slow the neutrons created by uranium fission and thereby sustain the nuclear chain reaction. This ...

the same as used in virtually every commercial reactor in use today. There are no fast neutrons being used to breed fuel from fertile fission products or thorium salts – with the graphite ...

One of two nuclear reactors at the Hunterston B power plant which were shut down last year has been given permission to return to service. Hundreds of cracks were found in the graphite bricks ...

Bishnu Thapaliya demonstrates the bench top reactor for converting coal into graphite for use in batteries for electric vehicles and storing renewable energy in the grid. Yesterday’s polluting ...

The first reactor in Europe (GLEEP -Graphite Low Energy Experimental Pile) was installed here in the 1946 followed by DIDO (1956) and PLUTO (1957). GLEEP was used to investigate how to make a ...

Then, another branch of the team developed a "recipe" to convert the byproducts into graphite inside an electrochemical reactor, according to the lab. Unlike conventional methods for creating ...

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 ...

Regulators have given permission for reactor three to resume operations for a further six months despite more than 350 cracks in the graphite bricks. Owner EDF Energy said it would seek authority ...

Magnox reactors, such as Wylfa and Oldbury, use a loose stack of several thousand graphite bricks to slow the neutrons created by uranium fission and thereby sustain the nuclear chain reaction. This ...