Never used for their intended purpose, the cooling towers of Washington Nuclear Projects 3 and 5 (WNP-3 and WNP-5) loom over ...

Earlier this year, Pyongyang agreed to disable its nuclear reactor and provide a full accounting of its plutonium stockpile, "acknowledge" concerns about its proliferation activities and its uranium ...

The US Nuclear Regulatory ... III+ reactor designs compared to the Generation II designs, where the former almost invariably uses gravity and thermal properties of the cooling loops for passive ...

A characteristic of any thermal power plant — whether using coal, gas or spicy nuclear ... cooling water from a nearby body of water. The most common and more efficient way is to use a cooling ...

This method is known as a pebble-bed reactor (PBR). This design can be cooled using similar methods as traditional nuclear reactors. The difference, however, is that if the cooling systems are ...

The regime destroyed a cooling tower at its nuclear reactor complex in the presence of foreign journalist in 2008. But in 2013 it declared that all nuclear facilities would be restarted.

saying it acquired intellectual property used in small nuclear reactor cooling and heat transfer; financial terms were not disclosed. The company said it acquired novel annular linear induction ...

Constellation Energy, owner of the Byron Nuclear Power Station, plans to invest about $355 million in a lengthy project that will increase the site's power output and extend the life of the facility ...

An alarm signaling a marked drop in neutron levels forced a reactor at the Takahama nuclear power plant in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, to shut down on Jan. 30 while the cause is investigated.