To operate the reactor, you’ll turn on the coolant pumps and wait for the high-pressure liquid to reach 290 C. In real life, this takes about 8 hours, but lucky for us, the simulation is sped up.

The report, “Analyzing the Global Market for Nuclear Reactor Coolant Pumps,” says more than 30 countries are looking to include nuclear as part of their energy mix.

Framatome recently completed the refurbishment of 31 reactor coolant pump motors for three southeastern nuclear energy facilities. From 2002 to May 2018, the company modified and upgraded these ...

The Salem Unit 2 nuclear plant remained shut down this afternoon following a problem with a reactor coolant pump, according to a spokesman for the plant’s operator.

While the neighboring Salem 1 reactor is often referred to as Salem 2's twin, Salem 1 has different reactor coolant pumps. He described the four reactor coolant pumps as about 30 feet tall and ...

The pump weighs 187.5 tons, or 375,000 pounds, and is a critical component of the AP1000 design as it circulates hot primary-circuit water within the reactor. There are four reactor coolant pumps ...

A nuclear reactor at the Cook Nuclear Plant in Berrien County, Michigan, returned to full service Sunday, a week after it automatically shut down due to a failure in a coolant pump motor, said the ...

IAEA reports issue with reactor cooling pump component at Zaporizhzhia NPP. Story by Artur Kryzhnyi • 3mo. R epairs are being conducted on one of the six reactors at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear ...

Annular Linear Induction Pump (ALIP) Technology is a key enabling technology for NANO Nuclear’s ‘ODIN’ microreactor and has significant potential for separate commercialization within a year ...

Reactor number 3 and its cooling tower stands at Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant on Jan. 20, 2023, in Georgia. The nuclear plant has begun splitting atoms in one of its two ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is inviting companies to propose experiments using its Microreactor Application Research ...

That new deadline was set last fall after a separate issue involving a faulty motor inside one of the reactor’s four coolant pumps pushed the project’s projected completion beyond the end of 2023.