When alloy tubing in one of the new steam generators at San Onofre leaked a small amount of radiation four years ago this week, engineers at Southern California Edison immediately instituted emergency ...

Thermal efficiency improvement for economic gain has been an important power engineering endeavor for more than 250 years. The Newcomen steam engine appeared in 1750 and attained 0.5% efficiency.

Atommash has completed hydraulic tests on the first steam generator for the Kursk II nuclear power plant under construction in Western Russia, which will be the first to use the VVER-TOI (typical ...

Foster Wheeler announced that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract by BHI Co., for design collaboration on two supercritical pulverized coal fired steam generators for ...

Overlooked in the saga of the 2012 failure of the steam generators at the now shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is what the owner told federal regulators about the equipment before it ...

BWX Technologies Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) said that subsidiary BWXT Canada Ltd. was awarded contracts for steam generator design and component manufacturing for a nuclear power plant in China. China Nuclear ...

Testing activities have been successfully completed for a first-of-a-kind helical coil steam generator for use in NuScale Power's small modular reactor design. Testing activities have been ...

Southern California Edison has not yet concluded what the cause of the problems are at San Onofre, but the company told investors this week it hopes to petition to restart the plant in June. Victor ...

A supercritical plant uses a steam generator design that operates at full load above critical pressure 22.1 MPa (3,208 psia). The Benson boiler refers to a steam generator design that is capable of ...