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.

As part of the testing process the reactor lid experienced pressures of 24.5MPa, with the outer wall of the lid heated to 60C. The testing process confirmed the durability and the consistency of ...

Powerful US nuclear test reactor getting rare major overhaul Scientists in Idaho this summer plan to remove the 62,000-pound stainless steel lid on one of the world’s most powerful nuclear test ...

Today, the reactor has been shut down for fuel management. Its 10-ton lid has been removed, exposing the small core where highly enriched uranium fissions 5,000 to 6,000 hours a year.

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 Soviet Union raised the deaths from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to 19 Monday, as a top Soviet scientist warned of the “theoretical possibility” of further danger from the reactor… ...

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 ...

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 ...