We suggest you start with the tour before you start unless, you know, you’ve operated a reactor before. You have to balance the control rods, the coolant pumping, and the steam output to produce ...

from the utilization of individual pumps to the position of the control rods. To play the game, if one can call it that, you must keep the virtual reactor going at peak performance for as long as ...

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 ...

The Micro–Physics Nuclear Reactor Simulator was developed by Nuclear Engineering ... available The transient conditions that can be simulated include: Abnormal Control Rods Withdraw at Hot Zero Power ...

It explains nuclear fission, focusing on Uranium-235 and how reactors maintain a controlled chain reaction using control rods ...

As the nation laid to rest former President Jimmy Carter, they remembered him for a slew of his accomplishments in office but one nuclear moment from before his presidency is sure to shock you… no pun ...

On Oct. 29 at 7 p.m., Tohoku Electric Power Co. workers reactivated the No. 2 reactor by withdrawing the control rods that suppress nuclear fission. After confirming that the reactor has reached ...

Parts of the control-rod drive mechanism ... highly radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors.

Kansai Electric Power Co.'s No. 1 reactor at the Takahama plant first went online in 1974. At 3 p.m. on July 28, work began to pull out the control rods that suppress nuclear fission inside the ...