Maintenance outages at Forsmark 3 and Oskarshamn 3 have been extended after defects were found in control rods. The units, totalling 2323 MWe of capacity, are not expected to restart until the end of ...

Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy will replace four control rod blades at its Monticello Nuclear Power Plant next month after a major nuclear industry manufacturer reported a potential “substantial safety ...

Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it has signed a contract with Forsmarks Kraftgrupp AB for the delivery of control rods to Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Units 1 and 2. The ...

In this historic photo from the U.S. space agency, control rods for Plum Brook's Mock-Up Reactor, which entered the core from above, are shown. In the Plum Brook reactor, the control rods entered from ...

Areva Inc. completed the factory acceptance test for the installation of a digital control rod drive control system (DCRDCS) at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Ohio. With the successful ...

With reciprocal threats of annihilation, US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appear to have brought us to the brink of war. The underlying problem is North Korea’s relentless ...

As it has for decades, the South Korea-U.S. alliance must grapple with the inherently contradictory distortions of the control rod logic. The control rod logic, while not outwardly promoted by U.S.

The faulty installation of a tail rotor flight control rod on a Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter led to a fatal crash at Ramon base, the Israeli air force has concluded. An investigation ...