CLEVELAND, Ohio-- FirstEnergy Corp. said Monday it has purchased a replacement lid for the Davis-Besse reactor near Toledo and wants to install it in 2011. Davis-Besse has been shut down since Feb ...

Other reactor operators -- both across the nation and in France, which has reactors similar to Davis-Besse -- have replaced the lids because of cracking in the nozzles.

The shield plug consists of three lids placed on top of each other to block extremely high radiation emanating from the reactor core. Each lid weighs 150 tons.

Every two years, Florida Power shuts down its nuclear reactor for a monthlong refueling process that is as complex as it is expensive. This time, a $5-million, 83-ton hunk of steel is going to ...

The reactor cover for Akkuyu unit 1 (Image: Rosatom) AEM Technology, a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, said reactor lid manufacturing is a lengthy process and takes up to ...

The plant’s control panel and a model of the reactor core will be preserved, as well as signs, maps, and photos from the time of TMI-2’s partial meltdown in 1979. By; Rachel McDevitt, StateImpact ...

Because of the intensity of radiation, a human could spend only 90 seconds in the damaged core, even while wearing protective gear. First, they constructed an exact duplicate of the reactor nearby.

First reactor core block for non-nuclear testing. The newly assembled reactor core hardware comprises a carefully engineered 1:2 scale block designed to mimic a ZEUS fuel element.

NANO Nuclear Energy Inc has assembled the first reactor core hardware of its ZEUS solid core battery reactor for initial non-nuclear testing. The fuel element being prepared for testing (Image: NANO ...