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 ...

Framatome’s PROtect Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (E-ATF) technology operated with full-length fuel rods at the Gösgen ...

These reactors shut down, as the control rods were automatically inserted to dampen the nuclear reaction (SCRAM). At least two reactors experienced a station blackout, which prevented the cooling ...

These delayed neutrons allow enough time for human operators and computers to control the overall speed of the nuclear chain reaction called driving the reactor. The core of a reactor contains uranium ...

China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) said in a statement on Friday that the reactor was "completely under control". Engineers would find the cause of the damage and replace the fuel rods ...