Sentences with phrase «fast reactor development»

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.

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».»

The government said the incidents at Monju had led to a «stagnation» in the country's fast reactor development, as well as increased costs.

The government said it would «thoroughly utilise» the technology, knowledge and human resources Japan has already built up in fast reactor development.

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.

Thierry Dujardin, an official with the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's Nuclear Energy Agency in Paris, told Science for a 27 February 2009 article that fast reactors could help reduce nuclear waste and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

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.»

However, the government also said the country's development of fast reactors would continue.

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.

There are eight new small modular reactors on a fast track to generic approval in the US — and more than 45 designs under development globally.

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.