Shutdown is the state of a nuclear reactor when the fission reaction is slowed significantly or halted completely. Different nuclear reactor designs have...

The Harris Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant with a single Westinghouse designed pressurized-water nuclear reactor operated by Duke Energy. It was...

operates Ukraine's other three nuclear power stations. The plant has six VVER-1000 pressurized light water nuclear reactors (PWR), each fueled with 235U...

A scram or SCRAM is an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor effected by immediately terminating the fission reaction. It is also the name that is given...

Russian invasion "Operational & Long-Term Shutdown Reactors". IAEA. 13 April 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013. "Nuclear Share of Electricity Generation in 2023"...

Japan's TEPCO admits 1978 nuclear criticality, Reuters, March 22, 2007 Tepco official release (Japanese).Manual shutdown during reactor startup operations in...

Government shutdowns Shutdown (computing) Shutdown (economics) Shutdown (nuclear reactor) "Shut Down" (The Beach Boys song), 1963 Shut Down Volume 2, a...

largest fully operational nuclear generating station by total reactor count and the number of currently operational reactors since 2016, after it exceeded...

energy sources. The subsequent inability to sufficiently cool reactors after shutdown compromised containment and resulted in the release of radioactive...

dismantled. The reactors can be classified as follows: PICKERING A PICKERING A 1 (Safe Shutdown state) PICKERING A 2 (Safe Shutdown state, defuelled)...

The small modular reactor (SMR) is a class of small nuclear fission reactor, designed to be built in a factory, shipped to operational sites for installation...

Nuclear power was used in Germany from the 1960s until it was fully phased out in April 2023. German nuclear power began with research reactors in the...

xenon pit, is a temporary disabling of a nuclear reactor due to buildup of short-lived nuclear poisons in the reactor core. The main isotope responsible is...

future nuclear power stations. On 1 August 2016, Heysham 2's Unit 8 broke the world record for longest continuous operation of a nuclear power reactor without...

large, modern (housing the world's first advanced boiling water reactor or ABWR) nuclear power plant on a 4.2-square-kilometer (1,000-acre) site. The campus...

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant of V. I. Lenin after the founding leader of the Soviet Union, the plant was commissioned in phases with the four reactors entering...

70% owned by China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGNPC) and 30% by Électricité de France (EDF). The plant's twin reactors each have a nameplate capacity...

The Salem Nuclear Power Plant is a two-unit pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant located in Lower Alloways Creek Township, in Salem County, New...

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded. With...

The Haigerloch Research Reactor was a German nuclear reactor test facility. It was built in a rock cellar in Hohenzollerischen Lande Haigerloch early in...

Low-Power Reactor Number One, also known as SL-1, initially the Argonne Low Power Reactor (ALPR), was a United States Army experimental nuclear reactor in the...

pressurised water reactor (PWR) series has powered the Royal Navy's nuclear submarines since the Valiant class, commissioned in 1966. Nuclear reactor designs,...

This involved annealing its reactor pressure vessel and using parts from the recently shutdown unit 3. The Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant has five units:...

propelling nuclear submarines. Several other types of reactors were constructed, such as the Liquid metal cooled reactors like EBR-I, or gas-cooled reactors such...

part-constructed. Pakistan: 1 shutdown. Energy portal Nuclear technology portal ZEEP reactor Nuclear power in Canada List of nuclear reactors CANDU Owners Group...

objectives of nuclear reactor safety systems as defined by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission are to shut down the reactor, maintain it in a shutdown condition...

4 in 2017. Unit 4 was the last VVER-1000/V-320 reactor built. November 4, 2014 — an emergency shutdown of two power units occurred at the Rostov NPP,...

commercial nuclear reactors in the world, sorted by country, with operational status. The list only includes civilian nuclear power reactors used to generate...

United States, nuclear power is provided by 94 commercial reactors with a net capacity of 97 gigawatts (GW), with 63 pressurized water reactors and 31 boiling...

A nuclear meltdown (core meltdown, core melt accident, meltdown or partial core melt) is a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage...