The reactor pressure vessel for unit 1 of the Lianjiang nuclear power plant has arrived at the construction site in China's Guangdong province. It will be the first of two CAP1000 reactors planned for ...

Reactor pressure vessels (RPVs) constitute a critical safety barrier in nuclear power plants, safeguarding against the potentially catastrophic release of radiation. The structural integrity of these ...

The reactor pressure vessel was delivered to the Sanmen site in July. Photo courtesy of Sanmen Nuclear Power Co. Ltd and Westinghouse Electric Co. Construction of the Sanmen nuclear power plant in ...

The operator of the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex says it plans later this year to survey the interior of a reactor pressure vessel designed to hold fuel, in what will be the ...

All over the world, pressure vessels are being pressed into service beyond their design lifetimes. Advances in machine learning can lead to the deployment of increasingly reliable non-destructive ...