Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)—the company that runs the Fukushima nuclear plants—says that 70% of the fuel rods have been damaged on the reactor 1 and 33% have been damaged on reactor 2. “The ...

The first Russian-made nuclear reactor fuel bundles with experimental ATF (Advanced Technology Fuel) rods have been loaded into Unit 2 at the Rostov nuclear power plant (NPP) in southwest Russia. The ...

The restart of a reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant has been suspended in Japan, a day after the process ...

21 August 2006 – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order for a set of replacement control rod drive mechanisms (CRDM) for nuclear reactors from Ringhals AB of Sweden. The ...

Nuclear power plant operators may soon be able to monitor a reactor core by using sensors within fuel rod assemblies that literally scream the type and location of a problem. Nuclear power plant ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has successfully produced and tested fuel rods for use in its nuclear power plants, state television reported on Sunday, in a snub to international demands that it halt ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global nuclear control rods market report until 2021. This research report also lists seven other ...

Nations are racing to deploy advanced reactors for cleaner, more secure nuclear energy, which ...

Understanding the physical behavior inside an operating nuclear reactor can be done only with simulations on a supercomputer due to the high-pressure, high-temperature, and radioactive environment ...