Nuclear reactors – both old and new designs – use a lot of graphite as it is a key component. It is also one of the components in a reactor that gets deformed due to the radiation. The reason behind ...

Valar Atomics' Ward 250 advanced reactor has completed a zero-power fuelled criticality demonstration, becoming the second to ...

ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--X-energy Reactor Company, LLC (“X-energy” or “the Company”) today announced a Definitive Supply Agreement with Toyo Tanso USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Toyo Tanso Co., ...

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 ...

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 ...

The executive order directed the Department of Energy to have three different reactor designs reach criticality in a bit over a year. On Thursday, a startup called Antares announced that a test ...

Valar Atomics' Ward 250 microreactor achieved criticality on March 31, beating its DOE target by months. The $2B startup is ...

Valar Atomics has achieved self-sustaining criticality and completed zero-power testing at Ward 250, its Gen IV ...

Four British universities have been awarded funding to collaborate on research on securing a domestic supply of nuclear graphite and finding solutions to managing the country's stockpile of irradiated ...

ORNL's electrochemical approach creates the graphite from coal byproducts at just 1500 degrees Fahrenheit. The conversion occurs when 2.7 volts are applied into an electrochemical reactor, causing ...