A nuclear reactor vessel, soon to be the largest load to ever travel a Nevada road, arrived Thursday by train and will be switched at Apex to a 45-axle specially built vehicle.

The reactor vessel of the Oak Ridge Research Reactor is loaded into a protective shipping container for transportation and disposal offsite. Workers removed 127,000 gallons of water and sediment ...

TVA filled the new reactor vessel in the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant reactor being built near Spring City, Tenn., this week with 185,000 gallons of water in just over 23 minutes.

Mitsuhiko Tanaka says he helped conceal a manufacturing defect in the $250 million steel vessel installed at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 4 reactor while working for a unit of Hitachi Ltd. in 1974.

Kairos Power has installed the reactor vessel for its third Engineering Test Unit (ETU 3.0), under construction at its Oak Ridge campus in Tennessee.

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Once inside the reactor vessel, the robot, nicknamed "telesco," is operated remotely from a safer location. The robot can extend to a length of about 72 feet, including the pipes pushing it from ...

Embrittlement -- how prone a reactor vessel is to cracking -- poses a particular challenge, because it isn't something that is repairable by traditional means. And it is one of the most crucial ...

According to the agency, the reactor can supply 1,200 MW of electricity and 3,200 MW of thermal power (heat). One more USP of the nuclear reactor is that it is being designed to have a life cycle ...

Instead, the groups argue, operator Pacific Gas & Electric has relied on data from similar reactor vessels to justify continued operations at Diablo Canyon, while dismissing indications that the ...

Russia’s nuclear agency Rosatom said the reactor vessel for the sixth power unit at the Kudankulam plant is being transported to the construction site from the seaport of Novorossiysk. The ...