The plant utilizes boiling water reactors (BWR), the same type as the Fukushima ... Tohoku Electric invested 570 billion yen ($3.7 billion) to construct a seawall reaching 29 meters above sea ...
Its single General Electric BWR-3 reactor generates 671 MW. The reactor’s original license was set to expire in 2010, but in 2006 a renewal license extended operations to at least 2030.
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), a business of GE Vernova, has joined the coalition of utility companies that are working to ...
The purpose of this 1300 MWe boiling water reactor simulator is educational - a teaching tool for university professors and engineers involved in teaching various topics related to nuclear power. It ...
Application of the Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA) to BWR analysis is assessed in this paper by comparing ... Additionally, VERA is used to calculate 3-D temperature and fast ...
As part of an effort to develop advanced fuel cladding for use in light water reactors, several ORNL-developed FeCrAl alloys were tested in BWR conditions to determine their resistance to hydrothermal ...