Both are ambitious goals, given that American firms have long struggled to build reactors on time and on budget, and because ...

A demonstration accident-resistant nuclear fuel assembly has been loaded into the core of unit 6 of the Hanul nuclear power ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has secured an order from Shikoku Electric Power to supply 24 MOX (mixed oxide fuel) ...

One of the fuel assemblies destined for China (handout) A Kazakh-Chinese joint venture has made its first delivery of fuel assemblies to nuclear power stations in China, uranium giant Kazatomprom has ...

Rosatom revealed that at power unit No. 6 of Novovoronezh NPP, a batch of fifth-generation nuclear fuel assemblies TVS-5 has been loaded into the VVER-1200 reactor core for the first time.

Spent fuel assemblies could ignite—starting a zirconium fire—if an overloaded pool were to lose a sizable portion or all of its coolant water. In a scenario in which coolant water boils off, uncovered ...

Southern Nuclear uses new fuel assemblies enriched above 5% in a US reactor for the first time, testing high assay low enriched uranium.

For an average pressurized water reactor (PWR) type reactor, these fuel assemblies are between 4 m and 5 m tall and 20 cm across. Nearly 200 of these assemblies will go into a 1 GWe PWR ...

VÄSTERÅS, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westinghouse Electric Company announced that it delivered its first reload batch of VVER-440 fuel assemblies to Energoatom, the state-owned nuclear utility of ...

San Onofre initially shipped 270 spent fuel assemblies from its original Unit 1 reactor by rail before the federal government halted the process in the early 1970s, he said.