The reactor core may have a thermal or a fast-neutron spectrum, depending on the core design. The concept may be based on current pressure vessel or on pressure tube reactors, and thus use light water ...

Ultra-high-pressure cavitation peening targets PWSCC ... peening has been implemented in Japan on pressurized and boiling water reactor vessel closure heads, but only prior to the vessel heads ...

Scientists have developed the world's first conceptual nuclear reactor design of high plutonium breeding ... core of a reduced moderation boiling water reactor (RMWR) . The compound system ...

He said that building and operating a new 1,000-MWe nuclear power plant incorporating a pressurized water reactor or boiling water reactor is ... because the Kairos Power innovation is a ...

Without that pressure, the water evaporates, and reactor fuel could overheat ... sludge from leaking because the boiling point of salt is too high for it to evaporate at reactor temperatures.

Societa Gestione Impianti Nucleari SpA has begun the process of dismantling the pressure vessel of the boiling water reactor, which the company says is the most complex dismantling activity in the ...