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, ...

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

New Projects - Nuclear The pressure vessel for the Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor in China was put into place Sept. 22. Clarion Energy Content Directors 9.23.2011 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The protesting organizations, Friends of the Earth and Mothers for Peace, stated in Thursday’s petition that inspections on the Unit 1 reactor’s pressure vessel, meaning the thick steel ...

In the proverbial shadow of the Naughton Power Plant, a station in Kemmerer, Wyoming, that will stop burning coal at the end ...

“The pressure vessel may be the most important component of the reactor because it encases water on the highly radioactive reactor core,” the Sept. 14 news released said.

The reactor pressure vessel can be as much as eight ft (2.4 m) of stainless steel and the containment structure of reinforced concrete can be up to 6 ft (2 m) thick.

A milestone in Russian-Indian nuclear cooperation with the arrival of a reactor pressure vessel for the Kudankulam atomic power plant. IMAGE: The nuclear plant in Kudankulam. Photograph: Adnan ...