Heavy water can help keep such a chain reaction going ... effectively curb the pace of neutrons without capturing them. Nuclear reactors that use heavy water can employ a form of uranium commonly ...

Water cooled reactors have played a significant role in the commercial nuclear industry since its beginnings and ... All LWRs require fuel that is enriched in the fissile isotope, U-235. Heavy Water ...

When slowed down and controlled in a "uranium machine" (nuclear reactor), these ... liberated by chain reactions. In the end, the project decided to use heavy water—oxygen combined with the ...

The global nuclear energy sector is experiencing a renaissance with increased interest and expansion plans, but faces the ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a ...

More than 440 commercial reactors generate almost 10 percent of global electricity, a carbon‑free flow that has quietly been ...

An international team of researchers led by the University of Surrey has successfully measured a nuclear reaction that plays ... drive advancements in nuclear reactor physics,” said the team ...

A US nuclear reactor has switched from Regular to Premium fuel with Southern Nuclear inserting four Lead Test Assemblies ...

Unit 2 of Phase II of the Qinshan nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang province ... Phase III consists of two 750 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors supplied by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd and ...

These types of nuclei are constantly produced in nuclear reactors, but until recently, studying their reactions has been extremely difficult. Reactor physics depends on this kind of data to ...

Dr Matthew Williams, lead author of the study from the University of Surrey, said: “The weak 𝑟-process plays a crucial role in the formation of heavy elements ... produced in nuclear reactors, but ...