an area directly under the reactor's core. Officials had long hoped to reach the area to examine the core and melted nuclear ...

as a platform for analysis and visualization of behaviour of the nuclear reactor core from the viewpoint of reactor physics, fuel performance and thermal–hydraulics. The simulator is mainly used as an ...

They allow scientists to study how different materials behave under intense conditions inside a reactor core. Traditionally, these capsules are made using conventional machining techniques.

The scientists achieved this sustained nuclear reaction, the first created by humans, on Dec. 2, 1942, in a squash court under the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. Nicknamed ...