The plant still produces roughly one-third of all electricity generated within CT, causing great interest and speculation ...

The VVER (water-water energetic reactor) technology was born during the time of the Soviet Union. In its main features (light ...

The robot can be controlled remotely using a computer and joystick by operators. The robot navigates around the hazardous ...

Last Energy is a startup working to make low-cost small pressure water reactors (20 MW) with simple off the shelf parts. They are designing to keep things simple, use as much off the shelf parts as ...

Japanese utility Chubu Electric Power Company announced it has removed the upper lid of the pressure vessel of unit 1 at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant as it begins to dismantle the reactor.

With concrete already being poured, this startup’s molten salt–cooled reactors could be the first to deliver cheaper, safer ...

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued the final rule certifying NuScale Power’s small modular reactor (SMR), making it the seventh reactor design – and the first SMR – to be cleared by ...

Molten-salt reactors were first built in the 1950s but haven't been used in the US since the 1970s. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently issued a permit to build a molten-salt nuclear plant.

A shipment of reactor pressure vessels destined for the El Dabaa nuclear power plant (NPP) in Egypt was given an official send off on Thursday, 25 September on the opening day of the World Atomic Week ...

The first commercial central electric-generating station in the U.S. to use nuclear energy was the Shippingport Atomic Power Station of the Department of Energy and the Duquesne Light Company near ...