The Submarine Thermal Reactor plant (STR Mark I), the test ... its surface—hundreds of thousands of tons on the entire vessel. This pressure must be resisted by the hull which is in contact ...

The VVER-1000 reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for unit 6 of India’s Kudankulam NPP in the southern state of Tamil ...

I don’t know a lot about submarines, but I do know a lot about safely designing pressure vessels. And a submarine is a pressure vessel. I was inspired to write about this after watching an ...

And quite frankly, the new reactor designs ... a small US Navy nuclear submarine than a submersible. She displaced about 400 tons, was about 150 feet long with a pressure hull less than 12 feet ...

The central component for the second-iteration test unit for Kairos Power's Hermes reactor is the first reactor vessel to be ...

The Astute-class submarines feature an MTU 600kW diesel ... The major equipment components in the development of PWR 2 were the reactor pressure vessels from Babcock Energy, main coolant pumps ...

Nicknamed 'the silent service', nuclear submarines are used to ... out what's left of the centre of the reactor. ”It's called the reactive pressure vessel and really, it's just like a giant ...

The dismantling of a reactor pressure vessel at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant marks the completion of a project to dismantle the RPVs of four decommissioned reactors in Sweden. Units 1 and 2 of ...

Images taken by the robot under the No. 1 reactor at the plant also confirmed heavy damage to a concrete “pedestal” under the pressure vessel. The inspection by the robot started on March 29.

Right now, there’s at least one nuclear-power, nuclear-armed submarine stealthily patrolling the waters off the UK. The sub is powered by a nuclear reactor ... The vessels are the backbone ...