Wolfe continues improving not only graphite quality, but production quantity and speed. He has already scaled up from generating 5 grams of graphite to 500 grams at a time, although the reactor can ...

The University of Manchester has been awarded a grant for a program to change the graphite lifecycle in nuclear reactors. The program, led by the University of Manchester, will also see participation ...

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 American Physical Society has recognized the Graphite Reactor, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as an APS historic site. APS President Young-Kee Kim presented a ...

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., ...

Terrestrial Energy and NRG-Pallas are starting the final phase of the graphite irradiation testing programme for Terrestrial's molten salt reactor at the High Flux Reactor in Petten, the Netherlands.

Graphite dust is generated as a by-product of normal operations in high temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs), predominantly arising from mechanical wear of graphite-based components. Typically ...

MoltexFLEX scientists worked with the University of Manchester's Nuclear Graphite Research Group to use X-ray micro CT scanners to investigate how molten salt infiltrates pores within standard ...

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 ...

Graphite has been used as a moderator and reflector of neutrons in more than 100 nuclear power plants and in many research and plutonium-production reactors, in quantities ranging from a few kilograms ...