More than 440 commercial reactors generate almost 10 percent of global electricity, a carbon‑free flow that has quietly been ...

Energy Northwest has hired on 2,000 additional skilled workers, including both Tri-Cities area residents and specialists who ...

TVA shaved a year off its timeline for the reactors after elected officials criticized the project's pace. TVA plans to build the 10th generation of GE's boiling water reactor, a design it already ...

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. The resumption ...

From cooking a steak to running a nuclear reactor, there isn’t much that ... decided to test out exactly how efficiently he could boil water. Armed with a gas stove, electric kettle, microwave ...

Such a focus on simplicity of operation is popular with small modular reactor manufacturers – including GE-Hitachi’s BWRX-300, which is a more conventional boiling water reactor (BWR ...

Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs), which produce steam for the turbine in separate steam generators; and Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs), which use the steam produced inside the reactor core directly in ...

Although boiling water seems straightforward ... challenging to investigate in complicated systems like nuclear reactors. To investigate boiling and heat transfer phenomena with long-constrained ...

The No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at the Hamaoka plant are both boiling water reactors. The No. 1 reactor began operation in 1976 with an output of 540,000 kW, and the No. 2 reactor went online in 1978 ...