Making matters worse, the two units in operation use the same so-called RBMK technology that melted ... which means that the reactor’s core is pretty exposed,” Grossi said in an interview ...

Without the ability to cool the core, the risk is a meltdown ... run-away nuclear reaction. RBMK (Reaktor bolshoy moshchnosty kanalny [high-power channel reactor]), Chernobyl-type reactors ...

The second unit of the Leningrad NPP with the RBMK reactor is being prepared for decommissioning. The removal of nuclear fuel from the power unit has been completed. All fuel assemblies (fuel ...

US-based nuclear engineering company Amentum has been selected as consultant for the first-of-a-kind dismantling of steam ...

The accident occurred during a safety test on the steam turbine of an RBMK-type nuclear reactor ... and two or more explosions ruptured the reactor core and destroyed the reactor building. One was a ...

This type of fast reactor is called a Fast-Neutron Reactor (FNR) and is essentially a different core configuration of the FBR design, with no fundamental differences. Any fast reactor can in ...

A robot tasked with searching the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has retrieved a sample of melted nuclear fuel.

Unlike modern units, it doesn’t have the steel and concrete containment domes that back up core safety systems ... The two operational RBMK reactors in Kursk were both built before the Chernobyl ...

INSAG stands by the general conclusions of INSAG-1 about the accident’s causes and their implications for the safety of the Chernobyl type light water cooled graphite moderated RBMK reactors. However, ...

You have to balance the control rods, the coolant pumping, and the steam output to produce as much power as possible without melting the core. If the reactor were real, the pressure vessel would ...

The NSTX-U is the primary nuclear fusion reactor experiment which is ongoing at the US Department of Energy's PPPL.