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Krellenstein said Alva will target those reactors, where the hurdles have been costs and the downtime challenge of retrofitting decades-old, bespoke steam-turbine generator plants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Alva’s uprate projects would work like this: The company would act as the project developer for building a steam-turbine and electric generator next to existing nuclear facilities, which would keep producing power during the construction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Indeed, Tri Alpha is planning that its first-generation power reactor would use a more conventional steam-turbine system.

From Nature • Jul. 22, 2014

The majority of the cost is the steam-turbine machinery needed to convert the heat into electricity.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2010

Nearly parallel is the case of the cream separator, to which the steam-turbine principle has been applied with a certain degree of success.

From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by Sutherland, George