Sentences with phrase «prism fast reactors»

The U.K. is considering a plan to build two of General Electric's PRISM fast reactors, the latest in a series of fast - reactor designs that for several decades have attempted with mixed success to handle plutonium and other radioactive waste from nuclear power.

«The PRISM fast reactor is attracting friends among environmentalists formerly opposed to nuclear power... Only fast reactors can consume the plutonium.

And General Electric submitted a proposal to build the PRISM fast reactor which is this type of integral fast reactor that I'm wanting to build.»

Not exact matches

Novel design The trouble with fast reactors has largely been related to what's used to cool them — liquid sodium in the case of GE's PRISM and many others.

The PRISM design has benefited from the operating experience of EBR - II, an integral fast reactor prototype, which was developed by Argonne National Laboratory, and operated for more than 30 years at the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls, Idaho.

PRISM is a sodium - cooled, high - energy neutron (fast) reactor design that uses a series of proven, safe and mature technologies developed in the U.S. and abroad.

Prism is a sodium - cooled fast neutron reactor design built on more than 30 years of development work, benefitting from the operating experience of the EBR - II prototype integral fast reactor which operated at the USA's Idaho National Laboratory — formerly Argonne National Laboratory — from 1963 to 1994.

PRISM is a high energy neutron (fast) reactor which uses a series of proven, safe and mature technologies to create an innovative solution to dispose of used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium.

PRISM's coolant, liquid sodium, allows the neutrons in the reactor to remain at a higher energy (or speed, hence the common reference of «fast reactor»).

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy have developed the sodium - cooled fast reactor PRISM to advanced conceptual design, and the design is ready to start undergoing the regulatory process.

One fact that Loewen pointed out that enabled greater fuel use by the PRISM (or any fast spectrum reactor) is that all neutron cross-sections are one Barn.

Last October, GEH and Southern Nuclear signed an MoU to collaborate on the development and licensing of fast reactors including GEH's Prism.

«You get this beautiful synergy of using PRISM, a small modular reactor, to fix a [waste] problem and then explore if we could use this to make all this other electricity with the integral fast reactor approach,» he explains.

PRISM is a high energy neutron (fast) reactor design which uses a series of proven, safe and mature technologies to provide an innovative solution to disposition plutonium stockpiles and harness the remaining energy potential of used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium.

«This time» refers to the long - awaited opportunity to deliver the PRISM integral fast reactor that has been in development since the early - 1980s — an opportunity that last month saw Loewen visit the UK to give evidence to the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee of MPs.