For this year’s scorching hot Summer Olympics in Japan, thousands of athletes gathered from around the world in a display of sporting brilliance. In addition to the fierce competition, Olympians had ...

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 25, 2011 (ENS) – Westinghouse Electric Company has developed an emergency fuel pool cooling system to keep spent nuclear fuel cool in emergency situations, including the ...

An electrical failure on the evening of 18 March led to the loss of cooling systems at the fuel pools of Fukushima Daiichi units 1, 3 and 4, as well as the shared pool. However, operation of all the ...

A stand-alone emergency fuel pool cooling system developed by Westinghouse would be able to keep spent fuel cool in emergencies including the loss of all plant power, the company claims. A stand-alone ...

BRATTLEBORO -- How well prepared is Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to respond to an accident that cuts off power to the plant’s spent fuel pool cooling system? That’s a question the Nuclear ...

Westinghouse Electric Co. has developed an emergency fuel pool cooling system to keep spent nuclear fuel cool in emergency situations, including the loss of plant power. The system consists of a ...