Tag: reactor
Reactor shutdowns can lead to higher electricity prices
Reactor 3 at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant is Sweden’s largest reactor and accounts for approximately one third of Swedish nuclear electricity. But starting next Friday, the reactor will be…
Iran is building a new nuclear research reactor
Iran has begun construction of a new 10-megawatt nuclear research reactor in the province of Isfahan. According to the news of the Iranian official agency IRNA, the construction of the…
Zaporizhia nuclear power plant: the last reactor shut down, concern is growing
On the 200th day of the war in Ukraine, the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant continues to be talked about. Ukraine announced, this Sunday, September 11, the shutdown of the sixth…
Last reactor at Zaporizhzhya closed
Earlier in September, the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, announced after a visit to the nuclear power plant that the situation was untenable from a safety point of view and…
the 6th reactor of the Zaporijjia power plant shut down
Ukraine announced on Sunday the shutdown of the sixth and last reactor in operation at the Zaporijjia nuclear power plant, in the south of the country, the largest in Europe…
China to build nuclear reactor for space missions
The Chang’e 3 lander seen by the Yutu rover. To hold out during the lunar night, which lasts 14 days, it uses an RTG (radioisotope thermoelectric generator), a system close…
War in Ukraine: the last reactor of the Zaporizhia power plant disconnected
Due to a “fire that broke out as a result of the bombardments”, the Ukrainian state operator Energoatom announced on Monday, September 5, that the last operational reactor of the…
This is how electricity prices are affected by the reactor shutdown: “Will go up”
The Ringhals 4 nuclear power plant will not be able to start as planned after the summer’s annual maintenance after a component broke during the restart. Ringhals 4 was shut…
strikes near a nuclear reactor, departure of three cargo ships loaded with cereals
Ukraine and Russia on Friday accused each other of strikes near a reactor at Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, the day three new shipments of grain, crucial for…
What happens in the core of a nuclear reactor?
In France, nuclear energy provides approximately 75% of our electricity. If several levels of reactors are present, the basic technology remains the same: they are all pressurized water reactors. But…