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19 november 2014
The core catcher for unit 2 of the nuclear power plant at Ostrovets in Belarus has been delivered to the construction site, Atomenergomash said yesterday.A core catcher is a device provided to catch the molten core material — corium — of a nuclear reactor in case of a nuclear meltdown and prevent it from escaping the containment building.The core ...
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15 november 2014
Construction of additional safety features at unit 1 of the Ohma nuclear power plant, being built in Japan’s Aomori prefecture, will be completed by the end of 2020, the Japan Electric Power Development Corp (J-Power) has announced.Work to build the 1383 MWe Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) was about 40% complete in March 2011 when a tsunami ...
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