Nuclear Gallery
Browse the list below for project imagery.Akademik Lomonosov Floating Nuclear Co-generation Plant
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Akademik Lomonosov has 70MW of installed capacity. -
The Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear power plant is in Vilyuchinsk. -
The construction site is situated in Saint Petersburg.
Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, Mersin
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Installed generating capacity in Turkey, 1998. -
An image of the nuclear pressurised water reactor (PWR) in Turkey. -
Image of Akkuyu's PWR in Turkey. -
Akkuyu's pressurised water reactor layout.
Angra-3 PWR Nuclear
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Average annual collective radioactive doses at PWR plants around the world.... -
Angra-3 will be located close to the two existing plants. -
GDP, energy and electricity growth in Brazil (1970–1998). -
A 1,24MWe PWR reactor project is planned for Angra. -
Role of Eletronuclear in nuclear power plant construction and operation. -
Angra-3 will cost around $1,835m to complete and will add 1,224MWe to...
Arkansas Nuclear One
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The two-unit Nuclear One plant is located in Arkansas. -
Arkansas Nuclear One is built on 1,100 acres of land. -
US power generation breakdown for 2009.
Atucha Nuclear Power Plant
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Areva has been responsible for building over 100 nuclear power plants. -
Areva took over Atucha-1 after Siemens left the nuclear energy business. -
Simplified flow diagram of a pressure vessel heavy water cooled and moderated... -
Circuit parameters for Atucha-1 pressure vessel HWR. -
Horizontal section of Atucha pressure vessel HWR.
Barsebäck
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Barsebäck location. -
Barsebäck One was shut down on 30 November 1999. -
Barsebäck Two was closed in May 2005. -
Barsebäck One and Two are scheduled for demolition.
Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station
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Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station. -
Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station features two pressurised water reactors... -
Shippingport Atomic Power Plant was the first nuclear power plant in the US.
Belene Nuclear Power Plant
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The Bulgarian Government decided to restart the Belene Nuclear Power project... -
The Belene plant included two modern units of VVER type reactors, capacity... -
NEK EAD and RWE Power were developing the Belene plant under a joint venture...
Bellefonte Nuclear Plant
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The Bellefonte Nuclear Plant near the Tennessee River. -
Entrance of the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant. -
Aerial View of the unfinished plant. -
Turbine head of the unfinished plant still being maintained by Tennessee...
Browns Ferry Nuclear
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The three Browns Ferry Boiling Water Reactors together produce 3.4GW. (TVA) -
TVA’s Browns Ferry 1 reactor has been returned to service. -
Browns Ferry has three General Electric boiling water reactors. (DoE) -
Browns Ferry was brought back on line in June 2007. (TVA) -
Evacuation routes from Browns Ferry (TVA) -
Browns Ferry is on the north shore of Wheeler Reservoir. (TVA)
Bruce Power Generating Station, Toronto
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An aerial view of Bruce Power generating stations. -
Bruce Power has two generating stations. -
Each generating station has four nuclear reactors. -
When fully operated, Bruce Power generates around 6,232MW of power. -
Refurbishment works being carried out in the station.
Brunsbüttel Nuclear Power Plant
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The Brunsbüttel Nuclear Power Plant is situated in the Dithmarschen area... -
The plant was designed according to the "defence-in-depth" principle in order... -
The core of the Brunsbüttel NPP reactor includes 532 fuel elements. -
Brunsbüttel NPP generates 6TWh of electricity per year.
Bushehr I and II Nuclear
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Bushehr I and II were begun by Siemens. -
The Siemens contract failed, and Russian companies have completed Bushehr I. -
Bushehr I cost around $1bn. -
The power plant is actually near the town of Halileh, 12km from Bushehr. -
Minatom built the 1,000MW VVER-1000/320 light water reactor. -
The 1,000MW Bushehr power plant finally started up in March 2008. -
Russia and Iran are discussing various types of energy co-operation including...
Caithness
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The Dounreay site at Caithness was opened in 1955 to develop fast reactors. -
After Dounreay's closure, there are hopes that staff can work in the... -
Dounreay was originally ordered in 1988. -
All the reactors at Caithness have now closed. -
Illustration of new storage facility. -
Decontamination building at Dounreay.
Chernobyl
Civaux 1-2
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The Civaux nuclear power plant. -
The turbine hall of the Civaux N4 (1450MW) nuclear power plant housing. -
The control room of the Civaux N4 (1450MW) nuclear power plant. -
The Civaux nuclear power plant. -
The Civaux nuclear power plant in its environment.
Flamanville Nuclear
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Alstom is supplying the 1,750MW steam turbine for the Flamanville reactor. -
Alstom is contracted to build the turbine island for the world's largest EPR. -
The Flamanville order is worth more than €350m to Alstom. -
Alstom's Arabelle turbine offers a new architecture where the steam first... -
Controlling the automated rotor welding process. -
Alstom's design improves efficiency and reduces installation and maintenance... -
The Arabelle design from Alstom is shorter and lighter than previous nuclear... -
Developed from its 1,550MW model, Alstom's Flamanville turbine will generate...
Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station
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The TEPCO Head Office. -
Aerial view of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Plant before the explosion. -
Image showing location of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Plant facing Pacific...
Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station, Durham
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View of the Hartlepool Nuclear Power Plant from the Tees River side. -
Construction of the plant during 1970s. -
Close-up image of the Hartlepool Nuclear Power Plant. -
Field-view of the Hartlepool Nuclear Power Plant in 2008.
Hunterston B Nuclear Power Station, West Kilbride, Ayrshire, Scotland
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Hunterston B is near West Kilbride in Ayrshire, Scotland. -
AGRs are encased in a concrete pressure vessel (DTI). -
The life of Hunterston B nuclear power station has been extended to 2016. -
The life of Hinkley Point B (Hunterston B's sister station) has been... -
The reactor hall at Hunterston.
Kaiga Generating Station
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Kaiga Generating station is located in the south Indian state of Karnataka. -
Kaiga Generating Station is located in north Karnataka in India. -
Dr. S. Banerjee, Secretary, DAE and Chairman, AEC, Dr. S.K. Jain, CMD, NPCIL...
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
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Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, the world’s biggest nuclear power station. -
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa is on the Japanese coast, approximately 135 miles... -
How Kashiwazaki-Kariwa works. -
Black smoke rises from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear site after the 2007...
Krummel Nuclear Plant, Elbe River
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The nuclear plant in Krümmel was set to open in 2010 after new transformers... -
A control room located on the site monitors and records every process of the... -
The emergency control room contains two of the plant's six emergency diesel... -
The plant generates electricity through nuclear fission. -
The plant is part of Germany's plan to reduce carbon emissions. -
The plant is primarily made of two buildings - the reactor building and the...
Lingao Nuclear Power Station, Guangdong
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Lingao nuclear power plant design is based on French pressured water reactor... -
Daya Bay power plant aerial view. -
Lingao has been built to a design similar to the Daya Bay power plant. -
Percentage growth in installed capacity, generation and GDP in China 1991–98.
Lungmen (Dragon Gate) Nuclear Project
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Taipower installed capacity by type, 1999. -
Taipower electricity sales, 1999. -
Forecast Taipower peak and average load 1999-2007. -
Fuel for electricity generation throughout the world. -
Construction is progressing at Lungmen unit 1. -
Construction at Lungmen unit 2.
Maine Yankee
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Aerial view of Yankee Maine nuclear power station. -
Diagram of primary inventory trend system. -
Inside containment and outside containment diagram of Yankee Maine. -
High level waste is stored in a spent fuel pool made up of specially designed... -
Air flow and reactor containment diagram for Yankee Maine. -
Diagram of main and emergency feedwater systems for Yankee Maine nuclear...
Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant, Nitra
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Mochovce power plant is located in western Slovakia, in Europe. -
An auxiliary building will be constructed on the site for units three and four. -
The turbine section at unit four of the Mochovce power plant. -
Construction at the turbine hall of unit four as of July 2012. -
The construction of unit three is expected to be completed in 2012. -
The reactor pressure vessel of unit four was installed in December 2011.
Ningde Nuclear Power Plant
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Ningde Nuclear Power Plant in Ningde, Fujian Province of China. -
Entry to the Ningde Nuclear Power Plant site connects the site with Wenzhou. -
MEP Vice Minister, NNSA Director Li Ganjie at the Ningde nuclear power plant... -
Construction of Unit 4 of Ningde NPP began in 2010.
Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant II
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Novovoronezh II nuclear power plant is located in Voronezh Oblast of central... -
Construction of Unit 1 of Novovoronezh nuclear power plant began in June 2008. -
Construction of the Unit 2 of NNPP II started in 2009. -
The construction of cooling towers for reactor units 1 & 2 of NNPP II is... -
The reactor of Unit 1 of NNPP II was installed in September 2012. -
Installation of key equipments at Unit 1 of NNPP II was complete by the end... -
Unit 1 of NNPP II is scheduled to be commissioned in 2014.
Oldbury Nuclear Power Station
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Oldbury Power Station is a 434MW, twin nuclear reactor station. It is the... -
Magnox Electric is the licensee and is responsible for the day-to-day... -
Reactor Two was finally decommissioned on 30 June 2011, after 43 years of... -
All the spent fuel will be transported to Sellafield for reprocessing through... -
The plant was originally scheduled to be decommissioned by 30 December 2008.
Olkiluoto 3 1600MW Nuclear Power Plant
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Steam generators and pressurisers were installed in February 2011 and... -
Finnish electricity consumption in 2005, amounting to a total of 87.9TWh. -
Demand in the country is rising faster than in other Nordic countries. -
Nuclear power is Finland's major source of energy. -
Olkiluoto 3 is a 1600MWe large-power pressurised water reactor. -
Olkiluoto 3 is the fifth Finnish nuclear reactor. -
Each of the main safety systems for the reactor building has four identical... -
The EPR is the direct descendant of Areva's N4 and KONVOI reactors. -
The EPR is the only third-generation reactor now being constructed.
Oyster Creek Generating Plant
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Oyster Creek Generating Station (Oyster Creek) is a nuclear power plant... -
The Oyster Creek powerhouse is owned and operated by Exelon Nuclear. -
A public meeting about Oyster Creek.
Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant, Haiyan County, Zhejiang
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Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant is located in Zhejiang province, China. -
The first recovered uranium fuel bundle was placed in the CANDU unit 1... -
ABB supplied switchgears for the extension project of phase two.
Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (Units 7 and 8)
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The Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP), located in Rawatbhata in the north... -
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) is increasing the existing... -
The first pour of concrete (FPC) for the seventh reactor of 700MW capacity...
Rosatom Atomic Power Agency 70MW FNPS
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The World Nuclear Association shows the progress of nuclear power in the world. -
Greenhouse gas emissions from the different forms of energy, with nuclear... -
Gazprom will use the ships for offshore oil and gas field development. -
Russian nuclear generation runs at about the same level as coal, and much...
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), California
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Aerial view of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). -
SONGS, the twin nuclear reactor power station, is currently rated at 2,200MW. -
Construction on units 2 and 3 commenced in 1974 and completed in 1981.
Sanmen Nuclear Power Plant, Zhejiang Province
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Construction works for the Sanmen NPP Phase 1 project started in 2008. -
The reactor vessel for the first unit of Sanmen NPP (Sanmen 1) was... -
The Sanmen 1 reactor vessel arrived at the site in July 2011. -
Harbin is providing steam generators and other auxiliary components for the...
Sellafield WAGR
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Sellafield, UK. -
As the European demonstration project for nuclear reactor decommissioning in... -
Since its shutdown in 1981, a large amount of work has been completed at the...
Shinpo
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Shinpo nuclear power plant units one and two. -
KSNP nuclear power plant design. -
Location of Shinpo power plant. -
Woolsung nulcear plant units three and four.
Taishan Nuclear Power Plant
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Construction on the second unit of Taishan NPP Phase I started in April 2010. -
COSCO Logistics delivered the steam generators at the Taishan project site in... -
Sir Robert McAlpine was awarded the design contract for two auxiliary buildings. -
The financing co-operation agreement for phase I of Taishan NPP was signed in...
Tianwan-1 And -2 Nuclear Reactors
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Tianwan-1 and -2 are upgraded versions of the VVER Pressurised Water Reactor... -
The recombiners (supplied at the time by Framatome) have a metal housing, and... -
Tianwan-1 and 2 are now complete in Jiangsu province. -
The Tianwan reactors use Framatome recombiners. -
China’s largest ever nuclear reactors are now on line (one is complete and...
Tomari-3 912MW Nuclear Plant
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MHI has made important developments since its first system, in 1970. -
The reactor coolant system has a reactor vessel, steam generators, reactor... -
Fuel assemblies are arranged in a cylindrical geometry in the reactor vessel. -
The MOX (Mixed Oxide) nuclear fuel consists of plutonium extracted from spent... -
Reactor coolant pump (model 100A).
Virgil C Summer Nuclear Station
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Virgil C Summer commenced operations in January 1984. -
The Virgil C Summer plant features a single pressurised water reactor. -
The Virgil C Summer plant is being expanded with two 1,117MW units.
Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Burke County, Georgia
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The Alvin W Vogtle Electric Generating Plant is in the state of Georgia, US. -
Containment of unit 3 of the Plant Vogtle. -
Units 3 and 4 are expected to be constructed by 2016 and 2017. -
Aerial view of the containment vessels for the Plant Vogtle units 3 and 4. -
Pipes to be used for the circulating water system.
Watts Bar 2 Nuclear Power Plant, Tennessee
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The delayed 1.2GW Watts Bar 2 PWR is to be completed. -
Watts Bar Unit 2 will cost the TVA around $2.49bn to complete. -
Watts Bar Unit 2 is located next to Unit 1, just south of Watts Bar Reservoir. -
Watts Bar lies on the Tennessee River, near Spring City. -
TVA's three nuclear plants (Browns Ferry, Sequoyah and Watts Bar) provide... -
Siemens is refurbishing and upgrading the turbine island. -
Watts Bar is TVA's third nuclear power plant.
Westinghouse AP1000 Nuclear Plants
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Westinghouse is building four AP1000 nuclear plants in China. -
Engineering design and some procurements have already begun for the planned... -
Construction of the Chinese reactors is expected to start in 2009. -
The four plants will be built in pairs at Sanmen and Haiyang. -
Passive systems on the AP1000 use gravity, natural circulation and compressed... -
Westinghouse is expected to bring the first plant on line in 2013.
Yonggwang Units 5 and 6
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Unit three of the Ulchin power plant, the first based on KSNP design. -
Yonggwang power plant units five and six. Completion was in 2002. -
Yonggwang plant comprising 2x1,000MW steam units. -
KEPCO generation capacity by technology, 1999. -
Unit three of the Ulchin power plant, the first based on the KSNP design. -
The KSNP nuclear design -
Wolsung nuclear plant units three and four. -
Ulchin units five and six. -
New KSNP design.