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 ...

Sweden's Vattenfall reported that it has completed inspecting all of the control rods both in the Forsmark 3 reactor and in fuel storage pools. The company said that, of the 197 rods inspected, some ...

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 ...

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.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc said early Friday that it has shut down a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant after an alarm was triggered during control rod withdrawal ...