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. The resumption ...

Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs), which produce steam for the turbine in separate steam generators; and Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs), which use the steam produced inside the reactor core directly in ...

The purpose of this 1300 MWe boiling water reactor simulator is educational - a teaching tool for university professors and engineers involved in teaching various topics related to nuclear power. It ...

The opening of the reactor pressure vessel of Hamaoka 2 (Image: Chubu) Hamaoka 1 and 2 are both boiling water reactors, starting up in 1973 and 1978, respectively. Unit 1 had a capacity of 540 MWe ...

The No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at the Hamaoka plant are both boiling water reactors. The No. 1 reactor began operation in 1976 with an output of 540,000 kW, and the No. 2 reactor went online in 1978 ...

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has applied to construct a 20-story tall, half underground, BWRX-300 boiling water reactor at the Darlington nuclear site near Toronto. Independent nuclear experts say ...

The company announced that it will introduce the 'BWRX-300' SMR technology, which is an improved version of a boiling water reactor (BWR) with a capacity of 300MW. The BWR generates power by ...