Most new nuclear fission reactors being built today are of the light water reactor (LWR) type, which use water for neutron moderation into thermal neutrons as well as neutron capture. While ...

The CMSR meanwhile does not use a graphite moderator, but sodium hydroxide in parallel tubing, which makes the design even more compact and adjusting the neutron moderation easier. The SSR does ...

Heavy water, scientifically known as deuterium oxide (D₂O), is a water variant where the typical hydrogen atoms are replaced with deuterium, a heavier isotope. This substitution results in ...

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has completed a series of first-of-a-kind criticality experiments intended to provide ...

“This opens up a whole new way to control neutron beams, which could help us see inside materials or explore some big questions in physics.” A study announcing the findings appeared in the April 17 ...

Neutron activation analysis is a method for the qualitative and quantitative determination of elements based on the measurement of characteristic radiation from radionuclides formed by irradiating ...