Sentences with phrase «at reactor sites for»

Fuel units must be stored initially in pools at reactor sites for about five years, until the decay heat drops enough to permit movement into dry cask containers.

Not exact matches

Last year managers agreed to a road map for decommissioning the site over the next 30 to 40 years that calls for removing melted nuclear fuel masses and demolishing the plant's four reactor halls at a cost that could top $ 9 billion.

The problem of spent fuel storage Nuclear reactor operators must store spent fuel removed from reactor cores for several years at least, in large pools at reactor sites until the remaining heat from the uranium fuel cools sufficiently.

The NRC has begun discussions with Babcock & Wilcox Co. about its proposed mPower modular reactor design that is currently under consideration by the Tennessee Valley Authority for construction at TVA's Clinch River site in Tennessee.

ITER, which is poised to begin construction at the reactor site in southern France, has yet to gain final approval for its design, schedule, and cost, collectively known as the project's baseline.

To create another $ 111 million in savings, Motojima proposed to the council changes to the «in - kind» components that are being built and paid for by each member and then delivered to the reactor site at Cadarache in France for assembly.

An independent body, the Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurances Board, will look at the potential clean - up costs - including any impact on electricity bills - and a review of potential sites for new reactors will report next year.

CNL provides a full spectrum of technical expertise and R&D facilities at our secure and licensed site, where we have designed, licensed, and constructed prototype reactors for over 50 years.

After conversion of the university reactor at Texas A&M to Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) fuel, NAC provided one NAC - LWT cask for the transport of 84 irradiated High Enriched Uranium (HEU) TRIGA type fuel assemblies to the DOE site of Idaho National Laboratory (INL).

Terrestrial Energy has begun a feasibility study for the siting of the first commercial Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories» (CNL) Chalk River site, with a further vision of creating a technology hub at CNL to support the commercialisation of small modular reactors (SMR).

Two nuclear reactors have been in operation at the site for over 40 years, with two more scheduled to be added, starting next year.

LFTR reactors are not economically viable at this time due to requirement to have a chemical processing plant on site to remove reaction byproducts from the fuel which would otherwise quickly render the fuel non-fissionable and by lack of materials able to handle the fuel for the long term.

The Obama administration deserves credit for authorizing funding for two small modular reactors, which will be built at the Savannah River site in South Carolina.

-- as compared to a nuclear reactor which also has a «Life expectancy of 20 — 25 years and then costs $ 50,000,000,000.00 to refurbish for another 15 — 20 (refurbished reactors have a shorter life before they have to be refurbished again or de-commissioned at which time the site has become so contaminated that it's un-usable for up to 25,000 years because that's the 1/2 half - life for waste / spent uranium to break down, i.e. if you have 1 lb of spent uranium after 25,000 years you have 1/2 lb.