Westinghouse Electric Co., Sanmen Nuclear Power Co., Shandong Nuclear Power Co., State Nuclear Power Engineering Co. and China Nuclear Industry Fifth Construction Co. have together installed eight ...

Germany's KSB Group has been awarded a contract to supply six reactor coolant pumps for use in the first two units of the new Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in Fujian province. Construction of the two ...

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power said on the 16th that it has completed the domestic development of motors for reactor coolant pumps and will begin actual application to domestic standard nuclear power ...

There are 263 pressurized water reactors (PWR) and 45 pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWR) operating today, comprising almost 70 percent of all the reactors in the world. Reactor coolant pumps (RCP ...

A nuclear reactor at the Cook Nuclear Plant in Berrien County, Michigan, returned to full service Sunday, a week after it automatically shut down due to a failure in a coolant pump motor, said the ...

The qualification testing of the reactor coolant pump for the first Westinghouse AP1000 reactor, under construction in China, has been successfully completed in the USA. The first two such pumps will ...

The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant shut down unexpectedly Thursday when a reactor coolant pump failed, federal regulators said. “This appears to be a fairly straightforward shutdown,” said Neil ...

As the Daiichi nuclear crisis has governments around the world reconsidering their nuclear-heavy energy plans and scrutinizing the safety of existing reactors and third-generation designs, several ...

Construction of four AP1000 units—the first new nuclear reactors in the U.S. in decades—is moving along at Vogtle 3 and 4 in Georgia and at the V.C. Summer nuclear power plant in South Carolina. In ...