The reactor pressure vessel has been moved into place at unit 8 of the Tianwan plant in China's Jiangsu province. The reactor pressure vessel is moved into the reactor building (Image: CNNC) The ...

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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 aim of this benchmarking was to provide CFD practitioners with two high quality datasets of relevance to reactor transients inside a pressurized water reactor pressure vessel with different ...

If the reactor were real, the pressure vessel would weigh as much as two 747 jets! Despite the high-tech, the business end is a conventional steam generator. The only difference is that the steam ...

Team members with Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) contractor United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR) have ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have turned to nanoparticles of certain ceramic compounds to line the vessels of nuclear fusion reactors to make them more durable ...

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 ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company says work to extend the retrieval device inside the reactor containment vessel, and lower a tool on its tip to the bottom of the vessel via a cable was completed by ...

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