Sentences with phrase «[fast reactors»

Those regions are home to a majority of the nuclear reactors now expected to go offline.

It is a 4th generation reactor design that uses depleted uranium.

North Carolina gets 32 percent of its total electricity from five nuclear reactors currently in operation in the state.

New reactor designs offer a generational leap in terms of cost and safety, but proponents have so far struggled to secure the billions of dollars in funding that renewables are getting.

The 99 reactors in the U.S. generate about 10 times that amount.

The other contains a one - metre - wide model of the spherical reactor core, studded with 14 pistons like a pincushion.

But instead, possibly as early as this year, the company will begin work on a full - size prototype reactor.

It's been 32 years since the Chernobyl disaster, a nuclear reactor meltdown caused by a mix of design flaws and human error.

Moreover, it should take even less fuel than a fission reactor does to produce a lot of energy.

He raised money from family, friends and the federal government and built a rudimentary reactor, no bigger than a kitchen range.

Part of the problem at that time was the lack of diagnostic and synchronization technology available then to build a working reactor.

Under the reactor was a huge pool of water — coolant for the power plant.

(All existing reactors operate using nuclear fission, rather than fusion, which is a very different process.)

In a scientific community that is starting to talk about fusion in terms of pennies per kilowatt - hour, General Fusion aims to build a cheaper alternative to the multi-billion-dollar reactor designs.

«They still went into a pitch black, badly damaged basement beneath a molten reactor core that was slowly burning its way down to them,» he said.

Getting the reactor to work once is the easy part.

In early May, Unit 4's reactor core was still melting down.

Maria Korsnick, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute said the trade group was disappointed in the agency's order and warned that upholding the status quo would lead to the retirements of more reactors in the U.S. «Once closed,» she said, «these facilities are shuttered forever.»

Fusion research is now moving from the whiteboard and academic papers to working reactors.

In 2016, the Tennessee Valley Authority turned on its Watts Bar 2 reactor after work had been suspended in 1985.

The reactor recently hit a major milestone, its construction is halfway complete.

The Bellefonte plant came with two partially built nuclear reactors, one that's about 55 percent complete and another about 35 percent finished.

Among the moon's vast riches: gold, cobalt, iron, palladium, platinum, tungsten and helium - 3, a gas that can be used in future fusion reactors to provide nuclear power without radioactive waste.

As cheap natural gas squeezes the margins of nuclear generators, there's only one company currently building reactors in the country — Southern Co., at its Vogtle plant in Georgia.

Now, thanks to advanced algorithms, modern electronics, and control systems, the hammers can hit the side of General Fusion's sphere - shaped metal reactor precisely at the same time, creating a pressure wave that compresses the plasma into a fusion reaction at 100 million degrees centigrade.

Reactors have found new buyers and new life in the past.

The fusion reactor everyone is anticipating is currently under construction in France.

The ITER international project in France has been plagued by cost overruns — the original 5 - billion - euro project is now budgeted at 13 billion euros (about $ 15 billion)-- and its 23,000 - ton Tokamak experimental reactor, three times heavier than the Eiffel Tower, is still many years from completion.

It's called the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) and could be the fusion reactor to lead a new era of clean energy.

The new Ford class carriers will feature an improved nuclear reactor with three times the power - generation capacity as the Nimitz class.

«But I believe nuclear power is a key technology with environmental considerations; there's no carbon dioxide emissions and [a nuclear reactor's plant] might last for 60 to 100 years.»

CB&I and Westinghouse were consortium partners building those reactors prior to their deal for Stone & Webster, which was meant to resolve disagreements over each contractor's responsibilities over the projects.

CB&I received no upfront payment for the sale of the nuclear construction business, but stood to receive earnouts based on the progress of the completion of two U.S. projects by Stone & Webster: a nuclear power plant in Georgia for Southern Co and two reactors in South Carolina for SCANA Corp (scu).

The team's design uses solar energy (captured with photovoltaic panels) to power an electrochemical reactor that converts water and human waste into fertilizer and hydrogen.

Thus mini-nuclear reactors, algae - based fuels, and various other exciting schemes are routinely trotted out as the «source of unlimited energy in the near future,» always with the implicit faith that the process can be scaled up from the laboratory to a global scale with only modest difficulties.

Though many are drawn to appealing fantasies of endless oil (abiotic or otherwise), breeder nuclear reactors burning plutonium, etc., the awkward reality is that the world does not contain enough oil, gas, lithium, uranium, etc. etc. for another 1.5 billion middle - class consumers, never mind an additional 3 billion.

Adams says the last time Ontario experienced such rate hikes was after Darlington Nuclear Generating Station's four reactors entered service in the early 1990s massively over budget.

May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.

They operate or control nuclear reactors, move control rods, start and stop equipment, monitor and adjust controls, record data in logs, and implement emergency procedures when needed.

First reactors or first responders?

Since idling all but two of its 50 commercial nuclear reactors, Japan has had to meet its power needs through pricey imports of liquefied natural gas, which contributed to an unprecedented current account deficit of three straight months beginning last November.

Various parts of Toshiba's business, which includes everything from nuclear reactors to personal computers, were underperforming.

However, when asked to comment, one CEO said Canada is in a strong position because Candu reactors use heavy water instead of boiled or pressurized water, which allows the reactor to run on natural uranium instead of enriched uranium fuel.

In 2007, Israeli airstrikes took out Syria's research reactor (which it had built with the aid of North Korea).

General Fusion plans to build a reactor that will provide sustainable clean energy.

Reactors melting down.

CEOs are somewhat concerned that the Canadian nuclear industry will be negatively affected, saying that risks associated with nuclear energy will cause buyers to favour suppliers who have built reactors more recently.

Tesla replaces gas - burning vehicles with electric ones; SolarCity provides clean power drawn from a source Musk is fond of calling a giant fusion reactor in the sky, the sun; and SpaceX ensures that we will become a «multiplanetary» species.

A number of coal - and oil - fired power plants will likely be retired, and while Virginia's four existing nuclear units will remain in use, plans for a fifth reactor remain shelved, for now.

Vanko has a good enough reason to hate Tony Stark: Howard Stark and his father, Anton, worked on the original arc reactor designs together, but Howard had Anton deported.