BRATTLEBORO -- Calculations performed by Vermont Yankee engineers to prove to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that certain components will operate within safety margins for another 20 years were ...
A proposed calculation of in situ closure stress allows engineers to select more appropriate proppant. For decades, the calculation for in situ closure stress on proppant has involved subtracting ...
Cracks found in machine and structural components raise two questions: Will the crack cause an immediate failure, and if not, how long until the crack grows large enough for failure? To address the ...
BRATTLEBORO -- Following technical hearings in July 2008, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board ordered Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee to recalculate whether nozzles in the nuclear power plant's ...
Framatome earlier this year applied its ultra-high pressure cavitation peening process on reactor vessel primary nozzles at Dominion Energy's Millstone nuclear power plant in Waterford, Connecticut.