This Safety Guide provides recommendations on how to meet the requirements established in IAEA Safety Standards Series No. SSR-2/1 (Rev. 1) in relation to the reactor coolant system and associated ...

Curtiss-Wright Corp. (NYSE: CW), Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC, and the State Nuclear Power and Technology Corp. (SNPTC) of China said they have successfully completed the design, manufacture and ...

As nuclear engineers well understand, the water in nuclear reactor containment vessels moderates the speed of the neutrons released by the uranium in order to sustain the chain reaction, and carries ...

Repairs are being conducted on one of the six reactors at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) following the discovery of a small water leak from the impulse line, which is part of the reactor ...

The commissioning of the first pump in the primary cooling circuit of the RA-10 multipurpose reactor has taken place as part ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westinghouse Electric Company announced a new Compound D – Extended Life O-ring for Westinghouse-designed reactor coolant pump (RCP) seals. The Compound D O-ring uses ...

The reactor core is the central part of a nuclear reactor where nuclear fission occurs. It consists of four basic systems and components: the fuel (including fuel rods and the fuel assembly structure) ...

Countercurrent flow limitations (CCFL) represent a critical safety and operational consideration in pressurised water reactors (PWRs). In these systems, opposing flows of coolant and vapour within ...

The warnings were stark and issued repeatedly as far back as 1972: If the cooling systems ever failed at a Mark 1 nuclear reactor, the primary containment vessel surrounding the reactor would probably ...

The first of four main pumps for China's ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project has passed factory acceptance tests and been shipped to the construction site at the Changjiang on the ...