Sentences with phrase «commercial reactors»

But the team says the method may also be usable in the higher - temperature alloys used in commercial reactors.

It's one of the first designs ever developed for commercial reactors in this country, and it's widely used in Japan as well.

By way of example, in the nuclear energy arena we helped obtain the first design certification, early site permit, and combined nuclear operating license ever issued in the United States and continue to address daily ongoing operational issues across the current US fleet of commercial reactors.

In 2010, the Obama administration abandoned a 2 - decade effort to bury much of the high level waste — spent fuel rods from commercial reactors and radioactive material from nuclear bomb manufacturing — inside Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert (although Congress has ordered parts of that process to keep moving).

Our worst commercial reactor accident, at Three Mile Island 2, was said to be successfully contained despite a partial meltdown, according to the NRC's investigation.

Initially, micro nukes are likely to be installed in clusters as safer, simpler replacements for existing commercial reactors that need decommissioning.

K - DEMO is intended to be the next step toward commercial reactors and would be the first plant to actually contribute power to an electric grid.

Q40: Why is SMR - 160 friendlier to the environment in terms of tritium release than other commercial reactors?

Babcock was one of the suppliers to virtually all 104 commercial reactors built in the U.S.. However, U.S. utility companies stopped building new nuclear reactors after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979.

Since Japan took its 48 commercial reactors offline to pass new safety requirements, the country has seen a 16 percent increase in crude oil imports, contributing to a record trade deficit.

China would have been more than eager build a Thorium232 based commercial reactor core instead of the Uranium / Plutonium MOX type for both Iran and North Korea.

Uranium mining was corrected by the time commercial reactors were going (starting mainly from 1970 onwards).

The government has already spent about $ 4 billion on the project, Scott noted, which is supposed to help convert 34 metric tons of weapons - grade plutonium from the former Soviet Union and elsewhere into fuel pellets for commercial reactors.

Congress decided in 1987 that the nation's high - level nuclear waste from commercial reactors and other sources should be buried deep beneath Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

Because of the harsh environment fuel rods are exposed to — heat, steam, and neutrons that emanate from nuclear reactions — extensive further testing will be needed on any new cladding for use in commercial reactors, Kazimi says.

As ProPublica reported earlier, fire safety is a continuing concern at the country's 104 commercial reactors, as is the volume of spent fuel piling up at plants.

It will have a chance to demonstrate its resolve when it submits its review of all 104 commercial reactors to the White House, due this month.

And while Germany is phasing out nuclear power, five new reactors are under construction in the U.S., adding to its existing fleet of 99 commercial reactors.

Financing the construction of a capital - intensive nuclear facility such as a commercial reactor or enrichment plant, however, is a challenging enterprise even in good economic times.

Many think these make D - T fusion impractical for a commercial reactor.

As an added incentive, Japan could also host a materials testing facility needed for the commercial reactors that could come after ITER and receive greater support for its own planned JT60 fusion reactor.

SNC - Lavalin's Nuclear team was greatly enhanced by the 2011 purchase of the commercial reactor division of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited along with the development and marketing rights to CANDU ® reactor technology.

No one has ever died as the result of radiation due to commercial reactors in exactly the same way as no one has ever died of lung cancer due to cigarette smoking.

The Hyperion reactor uses uranium hydride for fuel, something that has not been used in commercial reactors.

Another factor complicating soaring retirement numbers: More than 80 commercial reactors have garnered federal licenses to operate for 60 years — but more than half of these are more than 40 years old.

Both projects are suitable for scientific and engineering discovery of extreme properties, but disturbingly, neither turns out to be close to a good design for a commercial reactor.

The trade group has been pushing industry to work toward a goal of phased deployment of ATF in a commercial reactor by the early - to mid-2020s, a schedule it deems should be significant in the decisions its members will need to make when evaluating the ATF safety benefits against the costs of adopting the technology.