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 ...

The crew compartment for NASA’s first crewed Orion spacecraft is headed to its launch site in Florida this week after completion of structural assembly at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New ...

Crack propagation might spell doom, but FEA software and FAD analysis can tell users how much longer damaged equipment will operate safely. Cracks found in machine and structural components raise two ...

The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board recently released a final report detailing the cause of an industrial incident that launched a large pressure vessel 150 m, killing four ...

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 ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 104, Section 4: JOURNAL OF FUELS & LUBRICANTS (1995), pp. 975-984 (10 pages) A study was performed to correlate the Sauter Mean Diameter (SMD), NOx and particulate emissions of ...