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US-UK firms join hands to build floating nuclear power plants using microreactors
Westinghouse Electric Company and CORE POWER have announced a cooperative agreement to jointly design and develop a floating ...
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Visions of Nuclear-Powered Cars Captivated Cold War America, but the Technology Never Really Worked
From the Ford Nucleon to the Studebaker-Packard Astral, these vehicles failed to progress past the prototype stage in the ...
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This $14-billion machine is set to usher in a new era of nuclear fusion power
The first and largest machine of its kind is currently under construction at the French scientific research center Cadarache, which specializes in nuclear power research. It's called ITER ...
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How a Nuclear Plant Pulls Off a Refueling Amid a Pandemic
The Braidwood nuclear power plant outside of Chicago plans its refueling operations two years in advance. Since the coronavirus pandemic spread around the world, it’s had to make last-minute ...
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Cargo container-sized ‘world’s simplest’ nuclear reactor to offer cheap heat
Finland-based Steady Energy has roped in global engineering company Tractebel – to assist in its LDR-50 nuclear ... 50 would ...
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Robinson Nuclear Plant completes successful refueling outage
HARTSVILLE, S.C., Nov. 14, 2002 — Employees at CP&L’s Robinson Nuclear Plant completed a scheduled refueling outage Wednesday, Nov. 13, when the 683-megawatt nuclear unit near Hartsville ...
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Refueling process begins for reactor at Shimane plant
Fuel loading is the process of placing bundles of cylindrical nuclear fuel assemblies into a reactor. Chugoku Electric said it started the refueling process at 1 p.m. on Oct. 28, after gaining ...