Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor.

Patent filings cover advanced coolant flow distribution and variable-speed pump systems for small modular reactors and ...

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 ...

Idaho National Laboratory researchers have built the first microreactor control system in decades, replacing the traditional ...

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 ...

For decades, light water reactors have used control rods to regulate the fission reaction that powers a nuclear plant. The rods move vertically in and out of the core and are made of mat. . .

Engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have reached a critical milestone in the ...

ORANGEBURG — A simulated nuclear reactor control room is the latest addition to S.C. State University's campus, part of the school's efforts to prepare students to enter the nuclear industry. The Post ...

Aurora Flight Sciences announced today that the company has been selected for a NASA Phase II award to develop technology to support autonomous control and protection of space-based nuclear reactor ...

HANFORD SITE — A clock centered high on a big control panel inside the B Reactor National Historic Landmark says it's 10:48. At this particular time, it isn't. The actual time during this part of a ...

Holtec’s attempt to restart the shuttered Palisades nuclear plant faces delays, safety questions and missing documentation.