The confinement over the fourth nuclear reactor at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant has not been functioning properly as a protective shield for almost three months. On Feb. 14, on the day of the ...

Ukrainian engineers and construction workers are carrying out temporary repairs of the Chornobyl site’s New Safe Confinement (NSC) that was severely damaged in a drone attack earlier this year, ...

who gave more than $30 million to the university to create its advanced nuclear lab. A diagram of a molten salt research reactor is seen past Rusty Towell, director of the NEXT Lab and professor ...

Heavy water is a form of water with a unique atomic structure and properties coveted ... the pace of neutrons without capturing them. Nuclear reactors that use heavy water can employ a form ...

The confinement over the fourth nuclear reactor at the ... damaged the outer part of the structure rather than directly the part of the layer over the reactor, which helped avoid a disaster.