Unit 2 of Phase II of the Qinshan nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang province has been reconnected to the grid following ...

The pressurized water reactor looks realistic and gives you ... If the reactor were real, the pressure vessel would weigh as much as two 747 jets! Despite the high-tech, the business end is ...

Japanese utility Chubu Electric Power Company announced it has removed the upper lid of the pressure vessel of unit 2 at its ...

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical. Using a ...

One type of SMR currently under the development in a number of countries is the integral Pressurized Water Reactor (iPWR). In this design, primary circuit components are placed within the reactor ...

Rice University engineers have developed a revolutionary reactor design that could decarbonize ammonia production while also ...

At the production site of Russia’s Izhora plant in St Petersburg (part of Rosatom’s Engineering Division), key welding has ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors ...

The SMR-300 is a pressurized light-water reactor which uses enriched uranium ... the move to a larger design in 2023. The SMR-300 pressure vessel would be submerged underground.

A borehole reactor is considerably more economical than large surface structures. The pressure is provided by the depth: the pressure of water at a mile deep is 160 atmospheres, the same as that ...

The purpose of this committee is to standardize criteria, methods and procedures for assuring the design and operational adequacy of reactor coolant pressure boundary leak detection systems used in ...