A team at Idaho National Laboratory has developed a surrogate nuclear reactor that uses LEDs to safely simulate ...

Researchers from University of South China, Tsinghua University and Technical University of Munich have developed a whole system uncertainty model and an Intelligent optimized power control system of ...

Engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have reached a critical milestone in the development of the MARVEL microreactor. They have successfully assembled and tested a novel Reactivity Control ...

Tecnatom will carry out human factors engineering (HFE) revisions on the control room design of the CAREM 25 reactor in Argentina. The company will revise the requirements and design specifications of ...

Terrestrial Energy continues to lead molten salt reactor commercialization with first ruling by NRC on IMSR Plant’s inherent safety mechanisms and first such ruling by NRC for a commercial design of ...

Burnable absorbers are key components in modern nuclear reactor design, serving to mitigate the excess reactivity inherent in fresh reactor cores while simultaneously enhancing operational safety and ...

Framatome Selected to Modernize System at Belgian Nuclear Plant. Framatome has been selected by Electrabel, part of ENGIE Group, to modernize the rod control system of the Tihange 3 nuclear reactor in ...

Belgium’s Tihange Nuclear Power Plant unit 3 will have its control rod system modernised over several years after Framatome was selected by Engie's Electrabel to carry out the work. Unit 3 is the last ...

It’s called the pilot-operated relief valve, and it sits atop the pressurizer attached to the Unit 2 reactor of Three Mile Island. It is often referred to as PORV, and something went very wrong with ...

Editor’s note: On Oct. 16, 2024, about 100 Tri-Cities area leaders and people who worked to preserve Hanford’s historic B Reactor as part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park gathered at ...