Thermal efficiency improvement for economic gain has been an important power engineering endeavor for more than 250 years. The Newcomen steam engine appeared in 1750 and attained 0.5% efficiency.

Foster Wheeler announced that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract by BHI Co., for design collaboration on two supercritical pulverized coal fired steam generators for ...

BWX Technologies Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) said that subsidiary BWXT Canada Ltd. was awarded contracts for steam generator design and component manufacturing for a nuclear power plant in China. China Nuclear ...

Testing activities have been successfully completed for a first-of-a-kind helical coil steam generator for use in NuScale Power's small modular reactor design. Testing activities have been ...

Southern California Edison has not yet concluded what the cause of the problems are at San Onofre, but the company told investors this week it hopes to petition to restart the plant in June. Victor ...

Overlooked in the saga of the 2012 failure of the steam generators at the now shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is what the owner told federal regulators about the equipment before it ...

CAMBRIDGE, Ontario - BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:BWXT), whose stock has surged over 83% year-to-date and maintains a market capitalization of $18.65 billion, has secured a nuclear steam generator ...

A small number of steam generator tubes have failed pressure tests at unit 3 of Southern California Edison's San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in California as the company investigates the ...

A supercritical plant uses a steam generator design that operates at full load above critical pressure 22.1 MPa (3,208 psia). The Benson boiler refers to a steam generator design that is capable of ...