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 reactor pressure vessel has been installed at unit 1 of the Lianjiang nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province. It will be one of two CAP1000 reactors planned for the first phase of the ...

Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom has completed the welding of the upper half of the VVER-1200 reactor vessel for Egypt’s El Dabaa nuclear power plant.

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.

CHENNAI: The VVER-1000 reactor vessel for the sixth power unit of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant designed by Russia is being transported to the construction site. The equipment weighing 320 ...

Technetics explains how they developed custom reactor pressure vessel seals for a German nuclear power plant.

Small Modular Reactor (SMR) construction shifts into high gear, as UK company Sheffield Forgemasters welds a full-size nuclear reactor vessel in under 24 hours instead of the usual 12 months. The ...

Two main components determine a plant’s lifetime: the reactor pressure vessel and the containment structure, says Jacopo Buongiorno, a professor of nuclear engineering at MIT.

Two groups filed a petition saying Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant should be shut down to allow delayed testing on Unit 1’s pressure vessel.

GE Hitachi believes its BWRX-300 can become the cheapest, quickest and lowest-risk small modular reactor to market.

The NOMAD Project to Investigate Non-Destructive Testing of Reactor Pressure Vessels In nuclear power plants, RPVs house the nuclear fuel core and cannot be replaced after the initial installation.