Sentences with phrase «costs of fast reactors»

And nuclear power is just as sustainable as any other power source — even if we only use conventional nuclear fast reactor designs, there is enough uranium in the oceans and on land (recoverable at prices that allow the fuel costs of fast reactors to remain the same as today — which is trivial) to last for 5 billlion years, the expected time remaining fo our sun.

Not exact matches

But experimental fast reactors in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France have all been shut down because of high costs and concerns over handling plutonium.

Colin Gregory, director of the fast reactor research programme at Dounreay, says that the EFR will inevitably take longer to construct and cost more without more time for research at Dounreay.

Britain's fast reactor programme has been running for nearly 40 years at a total cost of over # 4 billion.

The contribution of uranium price to the cost of electricity generated by fast reactors, even if its price were the same as that of gold at US$ 14,000 / kg, would be US$ 0.003 / kWh of electricity generated.

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.