Idaho National Laboratory researchers have built the first microreactor control system in decades, replacing the traditional sliding control rods found in conventional nuclear plants with a set 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 ...

Top of an RBMK at the Leningrad plant. Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all make perfect sense to a trained ...

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 ...