Sentences with phrase «because oxide fuel»

Because oxide fuel conducts heat at a lower rate, the centre of the fuel is above the boiling point of sodium.

Not exact matches

We understand that their first fast reactors will use oxide or carbide fuel rather than metal — a less than optimum path, chosen presumably because the PUREX reprocessing technology is mature, whereas pyroprocessing has not yet been commercially demonstrated.

Graham was upset because the Obama administration's 2014 budget request called for a study of alternatives to the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, under construction at DOE's Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina.

«The only way I can explain the trend over time,» Hastings said, «are the nitric oxide sources, because we've introduced this whole new source — and that's fossil fuels burning.»

Fossil fuel electricity has only been cheaper than the more economically viable of the environmentally friendly options (for example wind and solar power) because the fossil fuel power station operators are allowed to dump their waste (carbon dioxide, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, toxic metals and particulate matter) into the atmosphere at no cost to themselves.

Although up - front costs (purchase price) are higher with an electric bus, some studies (PDF) have shown that lower «fuel» and maintenance costs account for a savings of $ 40,000 + per year, and that these zero emissions vehicles can also provide a «healthcare savings» of some $ 150,000 per bus because of reduced nitric oxide and particulate matter emissions.

This is because planes emit mono - nitrogen oxides into the upper troposphere, form contrails, and seed cirrus clouds with aerosols from fuel combustion.

The BN - series reactors continue to use oxide fuels because they have achieved reasonably good results with that type of fuel and the responsible designers do not see any compelling reason to change.