Supercritical-Water-Cooled Reactor (SCWR) are high temperature, high-pressure, light-water-cooled reactors that operate above the thermodynamic critical point of water (374°C, 22.1 MPa). The reactor ...

Because of the combination of gravity and the pressure of the denser water surrounding the core, the mixture circulates upward without the need for pumps. At the top of the reactor, the steam and ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will certify NuScale’s small modular nuclear reactor design for use in the United States. The NuScale is a smaller version of the approved pressure water reactor ...

AREVA’s refined cavitation peening process uses submerged, ultra-high-pressure water jets to work the surface of reactor vessel components. Customized tooling directs the ultra-high-pressure ...

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

Currently, the most widely used design is the pressurized water reactor. The type of reactor was originally designed as a nuclear submarine power plant. The water, circulating through the reactor core ...

Hydraulic pressure testing has been completed on the reactor pressure vessel for the demonstration CAP1400 unit to be built at Shidaowan in China's Shandong province.; ... The CAP1400 is an enlarged ...

Hermes is the first non-water-cooled reactor to be approved for construction in the U.S. in half a century. The last molten salt reactor was an experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the ...