Waiting game Hinkley Point C – a European pressurized water reactor – would, if built, be the first nuclear new build in the UK for more than 20 years. (Courtesy: EDF Energy) The headlines have not ...

Some heat is absorbed in the water—drawn from water bodies—used to cool these nuclear power plants and then returned, still with considerable heat, to these rivers or seas. The heat wave going on in ...

U.S. federal government efforts to expedite nuclear permitting could help accelerate the industry but have sparked concerns ...

Agreement Includes Services for Two Additional Pressurized Water Reactors WILMINGTON, North Carolina—April 26, 2017—Exelon Generation, operator of the largest nuclear fleet in the U.S., has ...

His memories of working at a Westinghouse Pressurized Water Reactor over 30 years ago are so sharp that he’s been building a nuclear reactor “simulator” running on the Raspberry Pi that ...

Supercritical-Water-Cooled Reactor (SCWR) are high temperature, high-pressure, light-water-cooled reactors that operate above the thermodynamic critical point of water (374°C, 22.1 MPa). The reactor ...

The world has relied largely on the same pressurized-water reactor technology for the past 70 years, but those plants have proven incredibly expensive to build in the U.S. in the 21st century.