Sentences with phrase «developed reactor designs»
Both GEH and ARC have developed reactor designs based on the Experimental Breeder Reactor - II (EBR - II) integral sodium - cooled fast reactor prototype at the Argonne National Laboratory.
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In its efforts to develop safer, cheaper, and more efficient nuclear reactors, the Idaho National Laboratory has researched half a dozen next - generation reactor designs; these two (the sodium - cooled fast reactor and the very - high - temperature reactor) are the most promising.
There are some 50 modular designs being developed globally, and while many are traditional light water reactors, which use water to cool the reactor core, others gain efficiency by using coolants such as gas, which allow reactors to reach higher temperatures.
ARPA — E itself, however, has no program to develop alternative reactors because of the expense of proving out novel designs and the long timescales required to develop any of them.
The CAREM design was developed by Invap under contract with the CNEA as a simplified modular pressurised water reactor (PWR) with integral steam generators.
On December 12, 2013, the Department of Energy announced it would award funding for developing a small modular reactor design to the Oregon start - up NuScale.
The PRISM design has benefited from the operating experience of EBR - II, an integral fast reactor prototype, which was developed by Argonne National Laboratory, and operated for more than 30 years at the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls, Idaho.
PRISM is a sodium - cooled, high - energy neutron (fast) reactor design that uses a series of proven, safe and mature technologies developed in the U.S. and abroad.
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy have developed the sodium - cooled fast reactor PRISM to advanced conceptual design, and the design is ready to start undergoing the regulatory process.
GEH and ARC Nuclear have each developed advanced reactor designs based on the EBR - II, an integral sodium - cooled fast reactor prototype which was developed by Argonne National Laboratory and operated successfully for more than 30 years at Idaho Falls, Idaho.
The NRC is developing a specific licensing framework for advanced reactor designs, Terrestrial noted, adding it has «confidence in the capability» of the regulator to review and reach safety, security, and environmental findings on the IMSR design, «in a timely manner».
While we dawdle, maybe the Chinese will develop a nice business selling us thorium reactors based on our old designs.
However, there's no theoretical or technological showstopper preventing an engineering design for an ARC reactor to be developed.
The economics of nuclear power in a mass - production model like what HPG has proposed are radically better — France and Japan have relatively inexpensive and reliable nuclear reactors precisely becuase they developed a couple of standardized designs and then deployed them widely, working out the bugs in the process.
The GRSR process reviews the completely - or partially - developed safety cases of new reactor designs that are not yet in the licensing stage.
SMRs and advanced nuclear reactor designs are also being developed to provide process heat for industrial uses, desalinization of sea water, and district steam heating.