The pump weighs 187.5 tons, or 375,000 pounds, and is a critical component of the AP1000 design as it circulates hot primary-circuit water within the reactor. There are four reactor coolant pumps ...

It weighs about 187.5 tons, or 375,000 pounds, and is a critical component of the AP1000 design as it circulates hot primary-circuit water within the reactor. Four coolant pumps are needed for ...

Curtiss-Wright has learned that one of the four reactor coolant pumps located at the Sanmen 2 reactor in China unexpectedly tripped and shut down upon the detection of a reactor coolant pump fault.

The report, “Analyzing the Global Market for Nuclear Reactor Coolant Pumps,” says more than 30 countries are looking to include nuclear as part of their energy mix.

Westinghouse Electric Company announced a new Compound D – Extended Life O-ring for Westinghouse-designed reactor coolant pump (RCP) seals. Contacts Westinghouse Communications Sheila Holt, 412 ...

Each AP1000 employs four reactor coolant pumps, each almost seven metres tall and 1.5 metres wide and weighing some 91 tonnes. Engineering company Curtiss-Wright, which manufactured the first such ...

Benchmarking of Computational Fluid Dynamics Codes for Reactor Vessel Design; ... This publication provides a description of the Rossendorf coolant mixing (ROCOM) ... Critical Heat Flux, DES, Detached ...

Three new reactors are planned for the Moorside site next to Europe's biggest nuclear complex at Sellafield, writes Peter Roche, with a combined capacity of 3.8GW. But a new report for Radiation Free ...

The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant shut down unexpectedly Thursday when a reactor coolant pump failed, federal regulators said. “This appears to be a fairly straightforward shutdown ...