Near the city of Bushehr in southern Iran on Saturday started construction of a second reactor at the only nuclear plant in the country. About it reports DW. The project for the construction of two additional reactors with a capacity of about a thousand megawatts each, with a total value …
Read More »Scientists have determined the optimal design of fusion reactor
The optimal design called a spherical tokamak. Scientists from the plasma physics Lab called the optimum, in their opinion, the device of the tokamak (toroidal chamber with magnetic coils), which can be used in commercial projects of operated thermonuclear synthesis. A study published in the journal Nuclear Fusion, and briefly …
Read More »A nuclear physicist: to fell a reactor, you need to try
“To fell a reactor it is necessary to try, – said the Belarusian a nuclear physicist with 35 years of experience Yegor Fedyushin. – This suggests that the level of responsibility — no”. He commented on DELFI incident, during which, as claimed, the reactor fell from a height of several …
Read More »Did the builders of the Belarusian NPP was able to drop the reactor vessel?
The fall of the 330-ton reactor vessel can lead to the deterioration of its characteristics and significantly increase the radiation hazard of NPPs under construction. Of a possible emergency on the construction of a Rosatom nuclear power plant in Ostrovets, Belarusian first reported in the social networks of my …
Read More »If jerk – reactor “Westinghouse” will not come to the rescue
The policy of de-communization, actively pursued by the regime Poroshenko, involves a complete rejection of the heritage of the Soviet era. Officials and deputies, completing relevant law, began, as they thought, from the easy – renaming the settlements. If uncompromisingly follow the idea of de-communization, then according to …
Read More »The reactor on fast neutrons BNPP passed another test
World’s largest fast neutron reactor bn-800 Beloyarsk NPP, which is located in Sverdlovsk region was successfully tested at a power level of 85%, the next phase of testing is bringing the work to 100% capacity. This unit is scheduled to enter full production in the fall of 2016. This was …
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