Sentences with phrase «advanced fast reactors»

Coupling Reactor Types If advanced fast reactors come into use, they will at first burn spent thermal - reactor fuel that has been recycled using pyroprocessing.

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Now, researchers have come up with a way to 3D print tough and flexible stainless steel, an advance that could lead to faster and cheaper ways to make everything from rocket engines to parts for nuclear reactors and oil rigs.

This nuclear fuel cycle would combine two innovations: pyrometallurgical processing (a high - temperature method of recycling reactor waste into fuel) and advanced fast - neutron reactors capable of burning that fuel.

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.

Advanced fast - neutron reactor technology, however, permits an alternative recycling strategy that does not involve pure plutonium at any stage.

RIAR's reactors provide a full range of capabilities to test fuel and materials of all types of existing power reactors as well as advanced and innovative ones: water - cooled thermal reactors, including those with boiling and pressurized water, gas - cooled, fast and other types of reactors.

Fast reactors are a class of advanced nuclear reactors that have some key advantages over traditional reactors in safety, sustainability, and waste.

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.

The AIT will also permit deployment of numerous advanced technologies that are relevant for remote reactor monitoring and detection, including water - based liquid scintillators, fast photo - sensors, light concentrators and others.

GEH and ARC Nuclear have each developed advanced reactor designs based on the EBR - II, an integral sodium - cooled fast reactor prototype which was developed by Argonne National Laboratory and operated successfully for more than 30 years at Idaho Falls, Idaho.

While there are more than 90 advanced nuclear technology and small modular reactor designs under various stages of development, GEH and ARC Nuclear view sodium fast reactors as being the most mature advanced reactor technology with decades of real operating experience from more than 20 previous reactors.