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If the reactor were real, the pressure vessel would weigh as much as two 747 jets! Despite the high-tech, the business end is a conventional steam generator. The only difference is that the steam ...

NEW DELHI: Russia’s state-run atomic agency said on Monday that it has shipped the reactor vessel for the sixth power unit of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant to India. The Kudankulam ...

A milestone in Russian-Indian nuclear cooperation with the arrival of a reactor pressure vessel for the Kudankulam atomic power plant. IMAGE: The nuclear plant in Kudankulam. Photograph ...

In this design, primary circuit components are placed within the reactor pressure vessel, eliminating the need for primary circuit pipework, with the intention of enhancing safety and reliability.

Although to most the term ‘fission reactor’ brings to mind something close to the commonly operated ... MSRE plant diagram: (1) Reactor vessel, (2) Heat exchanger, (3) Fuel pump, (4) Freeze ...