The University of Manchester has been awarded a grant for a program to change the graphite lifecycle in nuclear reactors. The program, led by the University of Manchester, will also see participation ...

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 ...

Graphics blocks in the core of an advanced gas-cooled reactor. Image courtesy of EDF. Dallas-based energy engineering firm Jacobs will lead a study of radioactive impacts in graphite reactor cores at ...

Yesterday’s accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant could be the worst in history, American scientists said yesterday. Sketchy facts released by Soviet authorities and radiation measurements by ...

A new graphite irradiation research program has been launched in support of ageing management of Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors (AGRs) in the UK. Last week, EDF Energy announced new scheduled closure ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a method to turn radioactive graphite blocks, a waste product of nuclear reactors, into artificial diamonds that generate electricity. These ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- 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 ...