Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy will replace four control rod blades at its Monticello Nuclear Power Plant next month after a major nuclear industry manufacturer reported a potential “substantial ...

Nine Mile Point Nuclear Plant Unit I and James FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant use the same rods as those found to be cracked in a plant in an unidentified country, company and federal officials said.

CRACKS were detected in the protective casings of a number of control rods at Bulgaria's sole nuclear plant, but there was no release of radioactivity, the plant's operator said today.

The Herald has revealed calls for the Torness nuclear power station to be shut down after it emerged an inspection found that Torness’s Reactor 1 had an estimated 585 cracks in its core bricks — ...

Pete Roche is an independent energy policy consultant and long-time nuclear critic. He has been policy advisor to Nuclear Free Local ...

Damage to the extenders, or shafts, through which the rods are inserted into the reactor, could potentially affect the efficacy of the control rods. The units in question each have over 100 such ...

China says fuel rods broken at Taishan nuclear facility in first admission of a problem. ... It said that the regulators will oversee measures to control the radiation levels.

BEIJING — A nuclear power plant near Hong Kong had five broken fuel rods in a reactor, but no radioactivity leaked, the Chinese government said Wednesday in its first confirmation of the ...

CONTROL RODS THAT are inserted or removed from the core primarily govern operation of nuclear power plant reactors. The number of control rods that are inserted at any particular time, and their ...