The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has accepted the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) application to build a small modular reactor (SMR) At its Clinch River site near Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Some heat is absorbed in the water—drawn from water bodies—used to cool these nuclear power plants and then returned, still with considerable heat, to these rivers or seas. The heat wave going on in ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority’s application to build a BWRX-300 small modular reactor at its Clinch River site in Tennessee has been accepted for review by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC ...

TVA anticipates preliminary site preparation work could begin as early as next year while the NRC reviews the company’s ...

The agreement outlines the intention to set up an assembly line for VVER-1000 fuel elements at Energoatom’s subsidiary, ...

The Fukushima accident prompted a pullback from atomic power in Japan, with the power source falling from 30 per cent of the ...

This is a monumental milestone not only for our village, but for Lake County and all of Northeast Ohio,” Titus said in an ...

The power company operates three large GE boiling water reactors at its Browns Ferry site that use the same fuel that would power the BWRX-300. "GE Hitachi is a known quantity," Hunnewell said.

The plant utilizes boiling water reactors (BWR), the same type as the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which suffered triple meltdowns following the earthquake and tsunami. ...

Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) This is a modular design, for which large sections of the reactor building can be assembled in a factory, complete with wiring and components, before being ...