US nuclear power plants use pressurized water reactors (PWR) and boiling water reactors (BWR), neither of which use graphite — instead, water works as both the coolant and the moderator for fission.

Accident Analysis for Nuclear Power Plants with Graphite Moderated Boiling Water RBMK Reactors; ... In 2002, the IAEA published Safety Reports Series No. 23 on Accident Analysis for Nuclear Power ...

Both Western-style nuclear reactors and Chernobyl used water for cooling. But Chernobyl’s reactor was designed to produce both heat and an isotope of plutonium, Pu-239, used in creating nuclear ...

Graphite is a moderator and it is fundamental to the nuclear reaction in an AGR power station. Allowing those AGR plants with higher rates of graphite loss to continue generating power could cover ...