Sentences with phrase «experimental fast reactor»

This would make the reactor about five times larger than the last experimental fast reactor operated in the United States, the EBR - II, which shut down in 1994.

It compels the DOE to build an experimental fast reactor, using an experimental fuel, at a scale and power density that has never been demonstrated, on a rushed schedule, with insufficient funding.

Just last year, ten reactors — eight in China, one in South Korea, and an experimental fast reactor in Russia — connected to the grid with 9.4 gigawatts total capacity, the most since 1990.

Plus, the U.K. has a poor record in the past with its own experimental fast reactor designs — the Dounreay Fast Reactor and the Prototype Fast Reactor — including multiple sodium leaks.

Nuclear power experts from Japan and the United States met in Tokyo today, and one surprising topic of conversation was the host country's Monju experimental fast reactor.

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.

Not exact matches

A large chunk of that reduction applies to Monju, the troubled experimental fast breeder reactor.

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.