The pressure vessel for the Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor in China was put into place Sept. 22. China’s State Nuclear Power Technology Corp. (SNPTC) is building one of the world’s first ...

The reactor pressure vessel for unit 5 of the Fuqing nuclear power plant has completed hydraulic pressure tests. The unit – the first of two demonstration Hualong One units being built at the site in ...

If you’ve ever wanted to operate your own nuclear reactor, ... If the reactor were real, the pressure vessel would weigh as much as two 747 jets! Despite the high-tech, ...

In October 2002, the Unit 1 reactor pressure vessel is lowered into its storage container during the decommissioning of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station’s original Unit 1. (Courtsey ...

The work to complete Bangladesh’s first-ever nuclear power plant took another significant step forward this past week when the reactor pressure vessel was installed at Rooppur NPP Unit 1.

The reactor pressure vessel for unit 1 of the Lianjiang nuclear power plant has arrived at the construction site in China's Guangdong province. It will be the first of two CAP1000 reactors planned for ...

The sort of catastrophic scenario described by the commenter here is highly unlikely. PhD student in nuclear engineering ...

The first stage of the tests involved raising the pressure within the vessel to 21.5 megapascals (MPa) and maintaining it at that pressure for 10 minutes to check the integrity of the vessel. The ...

All nuclear fuel was removed from the vessel when it was shut down in the late 1970's and the residual radioactivity remaining was within the stainless steel of the Reactor Pressure Vessel.

Reactor pressure vessel (RPV) shells in the existing U.S. fleet of nuclear power plants were typically constructed by forging ring segments from ingots of low-alloy steel offering sufficient ...

Is a Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Reactor About to ... Tepco said that the blazing radiation reading was taken near the entrance to the space just below the pressure vessel, which contains the ...