The reactor uses helium gas as a coolant rather than water. X-Energy has its own proprietary fuel made of graphite pebbles that contain uranium kernels encased in ceramic. Sell said the graphite can't ...

However, if a moderating substance like water or graphite slows down the neutrons ... Nuclear Fuel Used to Be Much Better The original CP-1 reactor used natural uranium and so it took a lot ...

Azets has been appointed as administrators of Moltex Energy and is currently looking to secure a sale of the company and its ...

The answer is that such reactors have been used since the very dawn of the nuclear ... so Oppenheimer et al went for a graphite reactor instead. Since then, there have been a number of molten ...

Poland’s MARIA research reactor, located at the National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ – Narodowym Centrum Badan ...

This isotope can be used to create "eternal" beta-voltaic batteries suitable for pacemakers and neuroimplants. The actual problems of nuclear energy are the decommissioning of uranium-graphite ...

The post-irradiation properties of the graphite are an important benchmark for NRC licensing and provide information on the safety of the reactor technology. Irradiation tests will also be performed ...