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 ...

Restarting a closed nuclear plant is a complex regulatory process that involves numerous inspections, safety checks, part ...

Alan Blind, who was engineering director at the Palisades plant from 2006 to 2013 under previous owner Entergy, said the NRC ...

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 ...

The Pennsylvania nuclear plant had a specific need for a rack that could transport and store 20 control rod blades while adhering to both spatial constraints and seismic standards.

Sweden's Vattenfall reported that it has completed inspecting all of the control rods both in the Forsmark 3 reactor and in fuel storage pools. The company said that, of the 197 rods inspected, some ...

New data centers are launching faster than power plants in a state already facing electricity shortages and higher prices.

Columbia Generating Station, owned and operated by Energy Northwest, is a boiling water nuclear power reactor located about ...

An air view shows the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., March 30, 1979. The small dome at center is where the "incident" occurred. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, file ...

He said nuclear reactors need to stay cool, even once control rods stop the nuclear reactions. "Even once you shut it down, right, the residual radioactivity gives off a lot of heat.

With the recent mobilization at the site of the former SM-1A nuclear power plant on Fort Greely, Alaska, the Radiological Health Physics Regional Center of Expertise, located at the U.S. Army ...