Sentences with phrase «commercial fast reactor»
The Tennessee Valley Authority hopes to catalyze development of such reactors by installing one at its Clinch River site in Tennessee, former home of the U.S.'s failed attempt to build its own commercial fast reactor.
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Strauss - Kahn was talking in Paris at a public hearing on Superphenix, the world's first commercial scale, fast - breeder reactor.
He said that the government had reviewed its position and concluded that the funding of research and development on the fast reactor at Dounreay was not a priority beyond March 1993, as there was agreement that commercial deployment of the fast reactor would not be justified until well into the next century.
The world's first commercial - size fast reactor, the BN - 600 near Ekaterinburg in the central Urals, began operating in 1980 on a fuel of enriched uranium.
Beloyarsk 3, a 560 MWe BN - 600 fast reactor, has been in commercial operation since 1981.
It would be astounding if a technology that exists only in PowerPoint presentations — magical small, cost - effective, fail - safe nuclear reactors — could possibly be researched, developed, demonstrated, and then scaled up faster than a host of carbon - free technologies that are already commercial today.