Sentences with phrase «u.s. research reactors»

The process to select the location of PROSPECT was competitive; HFIR and other U.S. research reactor sites were assessed.

Not exact matches

If the president's request is approved by Congress it will put a severe squeeze on the U.S. domestic fusion program and will force the closure of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Alcator C - Mod reactor, one of only three large machines, known as tokamaks, in the United States that are doing vital research in preparation for ITER.

Acting on two (of 12) spending bills under its jurisdiction, the panel agreed on Wednesday to increase the president's request for fusion research at the Department of Energy by a total of $ 76 million, including $ 48 million more for the domestic program and $ 28 million for the U.S. contribution to the ITER fusion reactor being built in France.

But the U.S. in 1991 bombed an operating research reactor in Iraq.

The U.S. has a program to help develop small - scale reactors, and in the U.K., the Treasury last month said it would plow 250 million pounds ($ 377 million) into researching the technology.

Promote nuclear power as the climate - neutral and politically - bipartisan energy resource that it is, incentivize the U.S. nuclear industry to expand America's nuclear capacity, and stimulate U.S. research and development in advanced nuclear reactor designs for implementation at home and abroad 5.