When alloy tubing in one of the new steam generators at San Onofre leaked a small amount of radiation four years ago this week, engineers at Southern California Edison immediately instituted emergency ...

Qualified materials must be available to enable the development of steam generators that are capable of operating at A-USC steam conditions. Major components, such as in-furnace tubing for the ...

Testing activities have been successfully completed for a first-of-a-kind helical coil steam generator for use in NuScale Power's small modular reactor design. Testing activities have been ...

Atommash has completed hydraulic tests on the first steam generator for the Kursk II nuclear power plant under construction in Western Russia, which will be the first to use the VVER-TOI (typical ...

BWX Technologies Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) said that subsidiary BWXT Canada Ltd. was awarded contracts for steam generator design and component manufacturing for a nuclear power plant in China. China Nuclear ...

The steam generators meant for reactor 4 of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), each weighing about 307 tonnes, was assembled and installed in the design position on last Wednesday. All four ...

Overlooked in the saga of the 2012 failure of the steam generators at the now shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is what the owner told federal regulators about the equipment before it ...

Southern California Edison has not yet concluded what the cause of the problems are at San Onofre, but the company told investors this week it hopes to petition to restart the plant in June. Victor ...

CAMBRIDGE, Ontario - BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:BWXT), whose stock has surged over 83% year-to-date and maintains a market capitalization of $18.65 billion, has secured a nuclear steam generator ...

Thermal efficiency improvement for economic gain has been an important power engineering endeavor for more than 250 years. The Newcomen steam engine appeared in 1750 and attained 0.5% efficiency.