Nuclear reactor

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History Collection on Instagram: “Reactor # 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant nearing completion | Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | November 1983.”

Within months researchers will attempt to create a ball of plasma hotter than the sun inside the Joint European Torus, a doughnut-shaped machine in south-east England

Pakistan is producing the cheapest electricity from nuclear technology. 28 May 1998

Nuclear Disasters Disasters The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979. It was the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. On the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale, the incident was rated a five as an "accident with wider consequences". The accident…

Nuclear reactor

How boiling and pressurized light-water reactors work

The water in a nuclear reactor really does glow blue. Here's the explanation of how it works and a definition of Cherenkov radiation.

A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor.

US officials have for the first time approved a design for a small commercial nuclear reactor, and a Utah energy cooperative wants to build 12 of them in Idaho. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday approved Portland-based NuScale Power's application for the small modular reactor that Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems plans to build at a US Department of Energy