LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK TWP. -- "Degradation" to about 2 percent of the bolts that secure a metal liner inside the core of the Salem 1 nuclear reactor has caused its operator to extend the plant's ...

Nuclear Energy on the Half-Shell Two men look at the bottom half of the reactor-to-be at the Dounreay atomic power plant in Scotland, a steel ball 135 feet wide, made of welded plates, in 1956.

Officials hope the long-awaited images will give them more insight and the chance to observe the nuclear reactor’s core since the plant’s cooling systems were wrecked by a magnitude 9.1 ...

Understanding the physical behavior inside an operating nuclear reactor can be done only with simulations on a supercomputer due to the high-pressure, high-temperature, and radioactive environment ...

Inside the world's first nuclear reactor that will power Earth using the same energy as the Sun. ... hydrogen atoms at its core are fused by the sheer amount of gravitational pressure.

MIT’s research reactor was built in the 1950s, and its purpose has shifted over the decades. At various points, it’s been used to study everything from nuclear physics to medical therapies ...

3D printing will also help nuclear engineers get a better picture of what is happening inside a core once the reactor is up and running. In a conventional reactor, a core’s behavior has to be ...

The Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant reconnected to the electric grid Sunday morning after a short shutdown, ...

A nuclear reactor was melting down. Jimmy Carter came to the rescue. As a 28-year-old Navy lieutenant, Carter was one of the few people on the planet authorized to go inside a damaged nuclear reactor ...

The prefabricated nuclear reactors, which would be small enough to build in a factory and ship on trucks, would generate about one-tenth the power of a typical nuclear power plant. It's ...