The heat-generating chain reaction inside a nuclear power station takes place under highly controlled conditions within the reactor core. Uranium-235 atoms can spontaneously break-apart (fission) ...

Tri-Cities area leaders and people who worked to preserve Hanford’s historic B Reactor as part of the Manhattan Project ...

the incredible energy released by nuclear fission inside the reactor’s core is used to heat water, which generates high pressure steam that powers turbines connected to electrical generators.

About 880 tons of highly radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors ... The drone cameras could ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

Nuclear fusion is the process by which two light atomic nuclei fuse to form a single heavier one, generating a massive release of energy. In the case of the Sun, hydrogen atoms at its core are ...

[Power Engineering] took a trip to the Westinghouse facility that provides maintenance for nuclear reactors ... Hundreds of passive heat pipes inside a graphite core which contains TRISO ...

About 880 tons of melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors ... The fuel in the worst-damaged No. 1 reactor mostly fell from the core to the bottom of its primary containment ...

The nuclear reactor inside the Bataan nuclear power plant in the Philippines ... Though accidents, such as a meltdown of the ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission ... construction permit the NRC issued for a reactor that uses something other than water to cool the reactor core. The reactor won’t generate generate ...

Officials hoped to film the core’s bottom to find out ... About 880 tons of highly radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors. Critics say the 30- to 40-year ...

The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant said ... cooling towers remain standing. Its core was ...