The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in the United States has approved the life extension for the 1,268-megawatt Perry ...

The Fukushima accident prompted a pullback from atomic power in Japan, with the power source falling from 30 per cent of the ...

It is a boiling water reactor that can supply 300 MW electricity to the grid. Apart from this, it can also provide hot water and steam that can be used for district heating, ...

The plant utilizes boiling water reactors (BWR), the same type as the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which suffered triple meltdowns following the earthquake and tsunami. ...

Both are advanced boiling water reactors, each capable of generating 1.35 million kilowatts. The remaining five reactors, which started commercial operations between 1985 and 1994, ...

New York is home to the nation's oldest nuclear reactor - Nine Mile Point's Unit 1 - which has been around since 1969.

Water cooled reactors have played a significant role in the commercial nuclear industry since its beginnings and currently account for more than 95 per cent of all operating civilian power reactors in ...

The Shimane No. 2 unit will be the second boiling water reactor, after the No. 2 unit at Tohoku Electric Power's Onagawa nuclear plant, to be brought back online since reactors of the same type ...