Tag: reactor
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…
ITER, the assembly of records: first compose reactor in place
(Finance) – ITERthe maxi international project that aims to build an experimental reactor for nuclear fusion, has reached an important milestoneas the first subsection of the ITER plasma chamber has…
a reactor of the Cattenom nuclear power plant shut down
Reactor number 3 of the Cattenom nuclear power plant has been shut down since Saturday March 26. In Cattenom, in the north-east of France, not far from the border with…
Finland starts EPR nuclear reactor twelve years late
Twelve years late, Finland is finally starting its EPR nuclear reactor. It is the first time in fifteen years that a nuclear reactor has started up in Europe. The Finnish…