Crews worked round the clock for two weeks, purifying graphite and uranium, arranging the blocks in 57 layers of precise positions, and fitting holes for cadmium control rods. They finished on the ...

In the semiconductor industry, high-purity graphite is used to manufacture crucibles. These containers hold molten silicon ...

Using advanced materials analysis to help extend the lifespan of nuclear power reactors, with substantial financial and environmental benefits. Researchers at Bristol's Interface Analysis Centre (IAC) ...

Using advanced materials analysis to help extend the lifespan of nuclear power reactors, with substantial financial and environmental benefits. Researchers at Bristol's Interface Analysis Centre (IAC) ...

The APS citation reads: "The X-10 Graphite Pile (Graphite Reactor) was the second nuclear reactor in the world to achieve criticality. It produced substantial quantities of plutonium for the ...

Professor Abbie Jones, Chair in Nuclear Graphite, said: "The UK nuclear industry has built all but one of its reactors (>40 in total) using graphite as core moderator material and structural ...

The first pictures have emerged of cracking in the graphite bricks which make up the core of nuclear reactors at Hunterston B Power Station in Ayrshire. Reactor three has not produced electricity ...

China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), a state-owned enterprise, has developed a process that enables the mass production of graphite with a carbon content exceeding 99.99995%. “Our ...

Though X described the world’s first artificial nuclear reactor as a “crude pile of black bricks and wooden timbers”, Chicago ...