Mark I Reactor High Pressure Emergency Core Cooling System: The Automatic Depressurization System (BROWN) can be used to release pressure in the reactor. It reroutes some of the steam to the ...

This eliminates many of the large and complex systems (e.g., reactor coolant pumps, motors, valves, large-diameter reactor coolant system piping) found in today’s nuclear power plants and other ...

There are 45 CRDMs, one associated with each control rod. The control rods, when inserted into the reactor, are designed to absorb neutrons to control the nuclear reaction. The CRDMs extend from ...

PERRY, Ohio — A reactor coolant system leak caused the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Lake County to shut down for two days last week. A spokesperson for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission tells ...

The March 11 quake triggered the world's worst nuclear accident since Chornobyl in 1986 when a reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant 240 kilometers north of Tokyo exploded after its cooling ...