Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have definitively answered a long-standing question: the tiny, natural pores inside graphite blocks do not affect the material’s performance as a ...
Graphite is a key structural component in some of the world's oldest nuclear reactors and many of the next-generation designs being built today. But it also condenses and swells in response to ...
Environmental management team members are priming three support facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for demolition in the near future. UCOR, the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management ...
The American Physical Society has recognized the Graphite Reactor, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as an APS historic site. APS President Young-Kee Kim presented a ...
Brookhaven National Laboratory's long-closed Graphite Research Reactor will be completely dismantled by September 2011 with help from $28 million in new stimulus funding, federal officials announced ...
A joint venture for the decommissioning of reactors that use graphite technology has been established by France's EDF and Veolia. Graphitech will seek contracts for assisting in the dismantling of ...
The Manhattan Project National Historical Park will include (among other facilities) the National Historical Landmark Graphite Reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It is among the most iconic ...
Defects in single graphite layers, so-called graphene sheets (Fig. 1a), are of interest in many fields of materials physics and chemistry. For example, in air-cooled graphite-moderated nuclear ...
X-Energy has signed a $100M deal with SGL Carbon for the supply of graphite for its Xe-100 small modular reactor.
The IAEA and Electricité de France’s Decommissioning and Waste Management Directorate (EDF DP2D) have agreed to work together to help countries to strengthen technology and human resources development ...
MoltexFLEX scientists worked with the University of Manchester's Nuclear Graphite Research Group to use X-ray micro CT scanners to investigate how molten salt infiltrates pores within standard ...