Sentences with phrase «liquid metal reactor»

Hansen believes that liquid metal reactors are the only chance to replace coal based power and thus to leave most of nature's carbon in the ground.

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In the 1980s this research was directed toward a fast reactor (dubbed the advanced liquidmetal reactor, or ALMR), with metallic fuel cooled by a liquid metal, that was to be integrated with a high - temperature pyrometallurgical processing unit for recycling and replenishing the fuel.

In addition to its unique fuel cycle, the TerraPower design employs a high - temperature, liquid metal core cooling technology suited to a breeder reactor with «fast» neutron activity, rather than today's predominant reactors whose water cooling systems slow neutrons.

[28] She programmed the Aberdeen Proving Ground's ENIAC to solve criticality problems for a liquid metal cooled reactor using the Monte Carlo method.

All other sodium reactors use oxide fuels, while PRISM uses a metal fuel, an alloy of zirconium, uranium, and plutonium, and the fuel rods sit in a bath of liquid sodium at atmospheric pressure.

Four electromagnetic (EM) pumps are suspended from the top of the reactor vessel and have no moving parts — the liquid metal sodium is propelled by the use of magnets in the pump.

Unlike the current generation of light - water nuclear reactors, PRISM uses metallic fuel, such as an alloy of zirconium, uranium, and plutonium, and PRISM's fuel rods sit in a bath of a liquid metal — sodium — at atmospheric pressure, which ensures that the transfer of heat from the metal fuel to the liquid sodium coolant is extremely efficient.

In one version of an MTF reactor — a machine that some believe «might save the world» 126 — a plasma of heavy hydrogen will be injected into the center of a 10 - foot - diameter metal sphere containing spinning liquid metal.

Engineers will agnostically build tar sand refineries, or solar power plants, or arctic drilling rigs, or windmills, or lead cooled liquid metal fast breeder reactors.