Microreactor startup Radiant Industries and Amsted Graphite Materials have agreed to work together to reduce reliance on foreign sources of nuclear-grade graphite, with Radiant placing a "significant" ...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have definitively answered a long-standing question: the tiny, natural pores inside graphite blocks do not affect the material’s performance as a ...

Four British universities have been awarded funding to collaborate on research on securing a domestic supply of nuclear graphite and finding solutions to managing the country's stockpile of irradiated ...

Nuclear reactors – both old and new designs – use a lot of graphite as it is a key component. It is also one of the components in a reactor that gets deformed due to the radiation. The reason behind ...

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 ...