Sweden-based Studsvik has signed a seven-year contract with the UK's EDF Energy for carrying out materials testing on irradiated fuel and fuel components from Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors (AGRs). The ...
Radiant is developing Kaleidos, a portable 1.2-megawatt gas-cooled microreactor, as a potential replacement for diesel generators. It is a pebble bed high temperature gas reactor. All the components ...
EDF will extend the lifetimes of two UK nuclear power plants—Heysham 1 in Lancashire and Hartlepool in Teesside—by an additional 12 months to March 2028 in a bid to secure the country’s energy ...
The defueling of the first of two advanced gas-cooled reactors at the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset, the UK, has been completed. Hinkley Point B (Image: EDF Energy) The Hinkley Point ...
Gas‐cooled reactors, particularly those utilising helium as a coolant, rely on natural convection and associated heat transfer processes to maintain safe and efficient operational temperatures. In ...