While the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program this engine was built to support was scuttled in 1961, the TAN shortline and its strange locomotive reportedly continued to be used into the 1980s to ...

A locomotive used to transport nuclear material around the Sellafield nuclear site has been returned to the firm that rebuilt it. Sellafield Ltd said it was replacing its diesel vehicles with ...

The nuclear power source would have been a solution of fissionable U-235, contained in a tank 3 feet long and a foot in diameter. This would, in turn, have been enclosed within a 200-ton shield.

The locomotive was almost completely destroyed and the entire train derailed. That 50-ton cage was tossed to the wayside like paperweight. In the aftermath, the pressure inside the flask was ...

A DRS locomotive alongside one of PNTL's ships at Marine Terminal in Barrow, Cumbria (Image: NTS) In February 2020, the NDA announced its decision to create a single nuclear transport division, ...

The locomotive was delivered in February last year after a 9,971km journey from Alishan to Wales. ... The Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant’s license has expired and it cannot simply be restarted, the ...