The world's first commercial nuclear power plant, which operated for almost half a century, has been defueled. Opened by Queen Elizabeth II on October 17, 1956, Calder Hall was the first nuclear ...

I visited one of these reactors in Lithuania in 2003 or so and was amazed that we could walk directly into the Reactor Hall without going through any containment structure at all ... While ...

Over 75% of speakers at a town hall last month said they opposed a nuclear replacement for the retiring Comanche 3 power plant, but opinions were split down the middle at a second town hall on ...

5 The reactor hall in Chernobyl's Unit 1. This was the power plant's first reactor, which went online in 1977. 6 Control rod coverings for the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl's Unit 1.

Such is the case for the U.S. nuclear power industry. ... Dresden-1 (1960–1978), and Calder Hall-1 (1956–2003) in the UK. There are only two ... The evolution of nuclear power reactors.

The world's first full-scale nuclear power station has been emptied of fuel for the first time since the 1950s. Calder Hall, at what is now the Sellafield plant in west Cumbria, was opened by the ...

New video has emerged online showing Russian military vehicles inside a turbine hall connected to a nuclear reactor at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, where intensified shelling has ...

Work has been completed to remove fuel from the world's first commercial nuclear power plant at Calder Hall in west Cumbria, in northwest England. Opened on 17 October 1956, Calder Hall was in ...

Will thorium reactors be the future of renewable energy? While nuclear power raises fear among many of us, it's considered one of our better options for a reliable, carbon-free renewable energy ...

The turbines at the Dungeness B nuclear power station have been idle since 2018. ... In the giant reactor hall the scale of the task becomes apparent. Image source, Piers Hopkirk/BBC.