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 ...

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 ...

The nuclear power industry is facing several major challenges: aging facilities, inadequate capital for new construction, shrinking workforces and delays in the federal spent fuel storage project.

TOKYO, April 22 (Reuters) - Tepco halted the cooling system for a spent fuel pool at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Monday, the third time a cooling system has been offline there in the past ...