TVA has selected the BWRX-300 SMR for potential deployment at the Clinch River Site near Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

The plant utilizes boiling water reactors (BWR), the same type as the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which suffered triple meltdowns following the earthquake and tsunami. The resumption ...

NextEra Energy Resources is moving forward with plans to recommission Duane Arnold Energy Center with potential restart for ...

The funding is through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Generation III+ Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Program, launched in 2024.

Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs), which produce steam for the turbine in separate steam generators; and Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs), which use the steam produced inside the reactor core directly in ...

TVA’s Board has not yet voted to approve an SMR at the nuclear site, however. TVA’s structured planning process “carefully” ...

Although boiling water seems straightforward ... challenging to investigate in complicated systems like nuclear reactors. To investigate boiling and heat transfer phenomena with long-constrained ...

The Shimane nuclear power plant houses boiling water reactors, which are the same type as those in the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant that suffered meltdowns as a result of the 2011 disaster.

Such a focus on simplicity of operation is popular with small modular reactor manufacturers – including GE-Hitachi’s BWRX-300, which is a more conventional boiling water reactor (BWR ...

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed for a second time the operating licence of the boiling water reactor ...