Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have definitively answered a long-standing question: the tiny, natural pores inside graphite blocks do not affect the material’s performance as a ...

The 10-year framework agreement between X-energy Reactor Company and SGL Carbon LLC covers the supply of graphite for the ...

A remarkable study led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory answers a decades-old question in nuclear science: Do tiny pores in graphite affect nuclear reactor performance? Subscribe to our newsletter for ...

Graphite is a key structural component in some of the world's oldest nuclear reactors and many of the next-generation designs being built today. But it also condenses and swells in response to ...

Environmental management team members are priming three support facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for demolition in the near future. UCOR, the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management ...

The reactor core contains fissile fuel (U-233, U-235 or Pu-239 in liquid fluoride form) held in a graphite container which acts as a neutron moderator. The core is surrounded by an outer vessel, the ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Graphite is a key structural component in some of the world’s oldest nuclear reactors and many of the next-generation designs being built today. But it also condenses and swells in ...

A joint venture for the decommissioning of reactors that use graphite technology has been established by France's EDF and Veolia. Graphitech will seek contracts for assisting in the dismantling of ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory's long-closed Graphite Research Reactor will be completely dismantled by September 2011 with help from $28 million in new stimulus funding, federal officials announced ...

Unit 4 is the last of Bilibino's four 12 MWe EGP‑6 reactors to be shut down.

Reach out and touch each other. That’s something that carbon atoms in adjoining layers within graphite aren’t supposed to do–even in the cores of nuclear reactors where graphite blocks take a beating ...