However, the government also said the country's
development of fast reactors would continue.
However, it is very important for Japan - a resource - poor country committed to being a global leader in science and technology - to continue the technological
development of fast reactors in anticipation of the future.»
Not exact matches
U.S. policy should aim at
development of self - sustaining «
fast»
reactors that generate enough fuel to maintain operations, rather than pursuing breeder
reactors that create excess fuel, the report says.
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.
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 Department
of Atomic Energy will grow by a healthy 21 %, to $ 2.5 billion, with $ 61 million for the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research in Kalpakkam, possibly for
development of a new fuel for the
fast breeder
reactor.
Prism is a sodium - cooled
fast neutron
reactor design built on more than 30 years
of development work, benefitting from the operating experience
of the EBR - II prototype integral
fast reactor which operated at the USA's Idaho National Laboratory — formerly Argonne National Laboratory — from 1963 to 1994.
It is profligate in the extreme to keep pouring money into the
development of fast breeder
reactors.
Fast breeder
reactors haven't happened yet, like a lot
of other
developments, and its possible that fusion will be another technology like that.
Last October, GEH and Southern Nuclear signed an MoU to collaborate on the
development and licensing
of fast reactors including GEH's Prism.
JAEA chairman Toshio Kodama said, «In addition to effectively utilizing the results
of our research and
development - including the results obtained through the
development of Monju so far for future
fast reactor development - we will contribute to the
development of state -
of - the - art
fast reactors in Japan by making maximum use
of the human resources and equipment, etc
of this organization according to the established «
fast reactor development policy».»
While there are more than 90 advanced nuclear technology and small modular
reactor designs under various stages
of development, GEH and ARC Nuclear view sodium
fast reactors as being the most mature advanced
reactor technology with decades
of real operating experience from more than 20 previous
reactors.
«This time» refers to the long - awaited opportunity to deliver the PRISM integral
fast reactor that has been in
development since the early - 1980s — an opportunity that last month saw Loewen visit the UK to give evidence to the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee
of MPs.
The government noted Japan's basic energy policy - decided by the Cabinet in April 2014 - aims to promote the nuclear fuel cycle, including the promotion
of fast reactor development.
They just fired up their first
Fast Fission
reactor after a LOT
of process
development, 100 times less spent fuel, 100 times greater fuel burn, they are probably ahead
of everyone in future energy solutions.