SAN ONOFRE – Federal regulators have instructed nuclear powerplant operators, San Onofre among them, to examine their reactorsfor a newly discovered type of cracking that could releaseradioactive ...

Westinghouse has been awarded a long-term contract for reactor pressure vessel nozzle inspections at the Leibstadt nuclear power plant in Switzerland. The company has already been performing such ...

Atomenergomash is in the process of manufacturing the reactor pressure vessel for Turkey's new Akkuyu 3 reactor. Improvements to hand-held cutting tools have cut the time of some jobs by 75%, it said.

Cracks found in machine and structural components raise two questions: Will the crack cause an immediate failure, and if not, how long until the crack grows large enough for failure? To address the ...

Because the acid was dry when it hit the protective, carbon-steel vessel head, engineers at the plant considered it fairly harmless. So they left it there. But according to nuclear power experts, the ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 104, Section 3: JOURNAL OF ENGINES (1995), pp. 1062-1069 (8 pages) The effects of a multi-hole nozzle with throttle construction (NTC) on combustion and emissions were ...

Its WesDyne subsidiary will be providing inspections services under a six-year agreement. Switzerland's Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant has renewed a service contract with Westinghouse Electric Co. and ...

Records show Kentucky regulators never inspected the pressure vessel that exploded at the Givaudan Sense Colour plant in ...