By incorporating radioactive methane containing Carbon-14—an isotope found in nuclear reactor graphite blocks—into the CVD ...

This is a good thing, and despite safety concerns from ageing plant such as steam releases, lifespan is more about the graphite blocks in the core of old nuclear reactors. These eventually crack ...

Beneath the stands of the University of Chicago’s athletic field, the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction transpired in 1942. In a wooden frame, graphite blocks interspersed with uranium ...