PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NuScale Power, LLC announced today that it has completed fabrication and assembly of a full-scale, upper module mockup of its NuScale Power Module TM (NPM). The upper ...

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 sluggish, ...

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westinghouse Electric Company announced it has recently completed dismantling the first of two reactor vessels at Bohunice V1 Nuclear Power Plant in Slovakia.

The original plan, nearly 20 years ago, was to plop the retired nuclear reactor pressure vessel on a barge and ship it off — via the Panama Canal or all the way around the tip of South America — to a ...

Fabrication of the control assembly for the reactor vessel has begun for the fourth unit at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey. Rosatom said it will be the 250th nuclear reactor manufactured in ...

Kairos Power has successfully installed the reactor vessel for its third Engineering Test Unit (ETU 3.0) at the company's site in west Oak Ridge. The ETU 3.0 and the Hermes Low-Power Demonstration ...

Team members with Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) contractor United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR) have successfully lifted and removed the lower reactor vessel from the Oak Ridge ...

The IAEA is launching a four-year Coordinated Research Project (CRP) on In-Vessel Melt Retention (IVMR), a severe accident mitigation strategy for nuclear power plants. IVMR consists of cooling the ...

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) crews have completed cleanup associated with the demolition of a major reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Workers finished the ...