Sentences with phrase «different reactor designs»
(Sec. 638) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with sponsors of an advanced nuclear facility that cover a total of six reactors consisting of not more than three different reactor designs, in accordance with statutory requirements.
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The main arguments that Weightman offers for his conclusions are the unlikelihood of similar seismic activity in the United Kingdom — it is 1000 miles from the edge of a tectonic plate — and the fact that all of its 19 reactors are of a different design from those at Fukushima.
The fact that different and superior reactor designs and safety protocols make it highly unlikely that Fukushima Daiichi 1 will «do a Chernobyl» does not stop the speculation that it will, and is about to, however.
(The DOE also is apparently considering a different fast reactor design that would use high - assay, low - enriched uranium fuel, but this material is in short supply and a new production source would have to be established.