Power plant operators in Switzerland and France idled reactors so that discharged cooling water would not harm wildlife in ...

A wildfire in Spain’s Catalonia region killed two people Tuesday; several countries in the region issued heat alerts.

Three Mile Island employed 675 people and roughly 300 will remain at the site during the first phase of decommissioning, the nuclear operator said, before falling to 50 from 2022. The dismantling of ...

The cooling towers are reduced to rubble (Image: PreussenElektra) PreussenElektra - which is responsible for the decommissioning of eight nuclear power plants in Germany - announced that the cooling ...

But in general terms, water is either returned directly, which is known as an open circuit, which can lead to general downstream river temperatures increasing several degrees, or the water is returned ...

The 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan also raised safety concerns. A dozen nuclear reactors in the U.S. closed from 2013 through April 2021, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Dublin, Dec. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Cooling Tower Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report by Product (Open-circuit, Closed-circuit, Hybrid), Material (FRP, Steel, Concrete ...

China has begun operations of the world’s first fourth-generation nuclear reactor that uses gas for cooling unlike conventional power plants that use pressurised water. The power plant built in ...