Sentences with phrase «current reactor designs»

One of the chief selling points for SMRs is that they are supposed to be safer than current reactor designs.

Not exact matches

A possible strategy for freeing nuclear power from its current impasse would be built around a new generation of lower - power, centrally fabricated nuclear reactors designed for inherent safety

After removal from the reactor core, spent fuel assemblies are placed in dedicated spent fuel storage racks in the below ground spent fuel pool, which contains four times more water volume for cooling per fuel assembly than current designs.

Small modular reactors - which are approximately one - third the size of current nuclear power plants - have compact, scalable designs that are expected to offer a host of safety, construction and economic benefits.

John — a molten salt reactor most probably won't take as long to build as the current designs — that is if the government stays in its place and the greens are kept out of it completely.

Increasingly, analysts describe current designs as «bridging technologies,» stepping stones toward more advanced clean energy, whether in the form of perovskite solar cells or modular nuclear reactors.

In particular, advanced reactor design involves «eating» nuclear waste from current fission reactors, thus strongly reducing nuclear waste and proliferation problems.

What's needed now is a new national commitment to the development, testing, demonstration, and early stage commercialization of a broad range of new nuclear technologies — from much smaller light - water reactors to next generation ones — in search of a few designs that can be mass produced and deployed at a significantly lower cost than current designs.

Now, a group of scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) supported by the Aerosol and Particle Technology Laboratory of CPERI / CERTH Greece have built and tested a new solar reactor design that includes storage so it can provide round - the - clock heat like the current fossil - fired method, but without the emissions.

However, all of these designs must demonstrate enhanced safety above and beyond current light water reactor systems if the next generation of nuclear power plants is to grow in number far beyond the current population.