The first of four main pumps has been installed at the ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project, under construction ...

The installation of the main circulation pump units means that all the main equipment is now in place at Turkey's Akkuyu ...

The only difference is that the steam is made by the heat of the nuclear reaction instead of by burning coal or gas. To operate the reactor, you’ll turn on the coolant pumps and wait for the ...

This guide covers the safety design considerations for various reactor coolant ... as emergency core cooling, residual heat removal or emergency feedwater systems. The detailed design of particular ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

More than 440 commercial reactors generate almost 10 percent of global electricity, a carbon‑free flow that has quietly been ...

The first of four main pumps has been installed at the ACP100 small modular reactor (SMR) demonstration project at ...

Energy Northwest has hired on 2,000 additional skilled workers, including both Tri-Cities area residents and specialists who travel from across the nation, to help with the outage. They join about ...

“The reactor vessel, the steam generator, the reactor coolant pumps, the nuclear stuff: they’re identical [to the AP1000 in Vogtle],” Lipman said. That means most of the supply chain is ...

The company said it acquired novel annular linear induction pump intellectual property ... intellectual property used in small nuclear reactor cooling and heat transfer; financial terms were ...

Although to most the term ‘fission reactor’ brings to mind something close to the commonly operated light-water reactors (LWRs) which operate using plain water (H 2 O) as coolant and with ...

The brainchild of nuclear physicist Alvin Weinberg, it was the first nuclear reactor to use molten salt as both a coolant for fuel and a component of the fuel itself. It was also the first reactor ...