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 ...

A typical nuclear reactor is powered by fuel rods filled with uranium. These use fission to split atoms and release energy. Control rods are inserted and retracted to absorb neutrons and regulate ...

Enron, the scandalous energy company that went bust in 2001, has just announced the creation of its at-home nuclear reactor, ...

All U.S. nuclear reactors, which currently provide more than half of the nation's carbon-free power, are first- or ...

The former American president, who died this week at 100, was among those who came to clean up a partial meltdown at Chalk River, Ontario.