Sentences with phrase «fast reactor power»
Russia is planning to construct a larger BN - 1200 fast reactor power unit at Beloyarsk to start up by 2020, while cooperating with China to build two BN - 800 units there.
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The U.K. is considering a plan to build two of General Electric's PRISM fast reactors, the latest in a series of fast - reactor designs that for several decades have attempted with mixed success to handle plutonium and other radioactive waste from nuclear power.
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.
«The PRISM fast reactor is attracting friends among environmentalists formerly opposed to nuclear power... Only fast reactors can consume the plutonium.
RIAR's reactors provide a full range of capabilities to test fuel and materials of all types of existing power reactors as well as advanced and innovative ones: water - cooled thermal reactors, including those with boiling and pressurized water, gas - cooled, fast and other types of reactors.
«Unlike today's nuclear reactor, the IFR [integral fast reactor] can generate unlimited amounts of inexpensive clean power for hundreds of thousands of years... It provides an excellent solution for what to do with our nuclear waste because it can use our existing nuclear waste for fuel and it is significantly more proliferation - resistant than other methods of dealing with nuclear waste... The IFR is also inherently safe.
However, the long - term future of nuclear power will employ «fast» reactors, which utilize ∼ 99 % of the nuclear fuel and can «burn» nuclear waste and excess weapons material [243].
Engineers will agnostically build tar sand refineries, or solar power plants, or arctic drilling rigs, or windmills, or lead cooled liquid metal fast breeder reactors.
Each dollar spent on a new reactor buys about two to ten times less carbon savings and is 20 to 40 times slower, than spending that dollar on the cheaper, faster, safer solutions that make nuclear power unnecessary and uneconomic: efficient use of electricity, making heat and power together in factories or buildings («cogeneration»), and renewable energy.
Smaller, modular reactors can be built much faster and cheaper than traditional large - scale nuclear power plants.
Fast neutron reactors are typically fuelled using a mixture of oxides of uranium and plutonium, and can vastly increase the efficiency of the nuclear fuel cycle by using the uranium - 238 recovered from recycling nuclear fuel after use in conventional nuclear power reactors.
And nuclear power is just as sustainable as any other power source — even if we only use conventional nuclear fast reactor designs, there is enough uranium in the oceans and on land (recoverable at prices that allow the fuel costs of fast reactors to remain the same as today — which is trivial) to last for 5 billlion years, the expected time remaining fo our sun.
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.
Before attending law school, Russ served as a division officer on board a nuclear - powered, fast - attack submarine and was certified as a Naval Nuclear Engineer by the Department of Energy's Naval Reactors Division.