China is no longer just experimenting with advanced nuclear designs, it is standardizing them. The country’s Hualong One reactor, a Generation III pressurized water design, has moved from one-off ...

The first European pressurized water reactors are expected to be switched on next year, but they have been hit by redesigns, cost hikes and delays, as Michael Banks reports Waiting game Hinkley Point ...

Countercurrent flow limitations (CCFL) represent a critical safety and operational consideration in pressurised water reactors (PWRs). In these systems, opposing flows of coolant and vapour within ...

There are literally dozens of small modular reactor (SMR) and microreactor designs being developed by different companies around the world, and some of the work has been going on for decades. Yet, ...

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued the final rule certifying NuScale Power’s small modular reactor (SMR), making it the seventh reactor design – and the first SMR – to be cleared by ...

Finland-based Steady Energy has roped in global engineering company Tractebel – to assist in its LDR-50 nuclear reactor design and licensing process. Tractebel has signed a contract with the small ...

The IAEA facilitated the co-operation on research and development, including the development and validation of computer codes for design and safety analysis of NPPs, to bring together the experts from ...

There is growing concern about the effects of the recent German energy crisis on the economy, private households, and the broader European power grid. As such, the German government faces increasing ...