John on June 8th, 2010

Power-technology.com has published an online magazine with a report this month Nuclear’s Next Phase. It examines the possibilities for future nuclear power, including fission, fusion, fast breeders and high temperature gas reactor proposals.

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John on May 19th, 2010

Curtiss-Wright Flow Control – EMD and Westinghouse Electric Company LLC announced today that they are continuing the successful testing of the world’s largest canned-motor reactor coolant pump (RCP).

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John on April 14th, 2010

International standardization of goods and services is a familiar concept. To be feasible, standardization requires that a technology be sufficiently mature to employ designs of well-established quality and safety. This is precisely the case for today’s nuclear reactor designs, which represent the culmination of more than 50 years of development.

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John on March 17th, 2010

The NDA has published a discussion paper on the development of a strategy for managing spent oxide fuels. In considering the future strategy the discussion paper describes how oxide fuel is currently managed in the UK and how this fuel could be managed in the future.

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