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China builds nuclear reactor to run aircraft carrier, puts US Navy on alert
China’s PLA Navy already has the largest number of vessels in the world, and its vessels are also quite modern, with updated ...
Takahama reactor becomes first in Japan to operate for 50 years
Thursday marks 50 years since a reactor at Japan's Takahama nuclear power plant began operations. It is the first reactor in ...
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US to decommission S5G naval reactor
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) is set to decommission and demolish (D&D) a second ...
China building prototype nuclear reactor to power next generation aircraft carrier, AP reports
"Operating a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is an exclusive club, one that China looks set to join," says a researcher ...
A robot retrieved first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor: Here's why it's a big deal
This is the first physical extraction of melted fuel from within the reactor containment vessel, a milestone in the ...
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Egypt: Milestone as reactor core catcher for nuclear unit arrives
This component is positioned beneath the reactor vessel. It is designed to contain molten materials in the unlikely event of ...
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A look at the research revealing China's work on prototype nuclear reactor to power aircraft carrier
The reactor is housed in a new facility built at ... and that they could produce a new nuclear-powered vessel concurrently. Tang reported from Washington.
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Nuclear reactor in 2011 disaster-hit area restarted
In late October, the Onagawa plant's No. 2 unit became the first reactor to operate in eastern Japan since the natural ...
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Tiny grain of nuclear fuel pulled by robot from ruined Japanese nuclear reactor
A robot that has spent months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant delivered a tiny sample of melted nuclear fuel on Thursday. The move was described as a ...
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China has built ‘prototype’ nuclear reactor for carrier
China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor for a large surface warship, in the clearest sign yet Beijing is ...
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Robot retrieves first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor
The mission is not over until the sample's radioactivity is below a set standard and safely placed into a container ...
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Robot retrieves first piece of melted fuel from damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor
The sample was collected from a mound of molten fuel debris from the base of Fukushima's reactor number 2's primary ...