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 ...

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 ...

General Douglas MacArthur, commanding general for the unified U.N. forces Aiding the Republic of Korea to repel the North Korean Communists, and a staff officer (right) inspecting a North Korean tank ...

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 ...

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.