Sentences with phrase «fast reactors»

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

It can be larger than 1 in fast reactors.

Each company has so far been developing its own sodium - cooled fast reactor models.

In addition, the integral fast reactor can burn radioactive waste from other reactors and produce its own fuel.

In addition, it will look for international cooperation to promote fast reactor development.

In fact, most such fast reactors have proved difficult to run reliably.

In the energy stakes, nuclear power remains a bit player, while fast reactors hardly get a walk - on part.

The real message, though, must be for those in the nuclear industry who still believe that it makes sense to press ahead with a European demonstration fast reactor.

The resource gains would be modest, whereas the long - term waste problem would remain, and the entire effort would delay for only a short time the need for efficient fast reactors.

For the very long term, recycling the fuel of fast reactors would be so efficient that currently available uranium supplies could last indefinitely.

Also, one of the only ways to really destroy nuclear waste is to burn it in fast reactors.

As a result of numerous fires from leaking systems, operating sodium - cooled fast reactors to date have been shut down more than they have run.

Q: The other aspect of the integral fast reactor is that it's one of a type of what's called passive reactors.

«GEH has broad engineering experience, deep technical capability and significant investment in its sodium fast reactor technology program that builds on a 60 - year history as an original equipment manufacturer of more than 60 boiling water reactors worldwide,» said Jay Wileman, President and CEO, GEH.

In 2010 the agreement was amended to permit Russia to consume the plutonium in fast reactors with limitations on the production of additional weapons - grade plutonium.

«I believe there is a desire there [in China] to use fast reactor technology to extend their energy base and enhance their energy security position.

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.

In the late 1970s, the UK Atomic Energy Authority, forerunner to AEA Technology, went as far as separating out americium and neptunium and putting them in the prototype fast reactor at Dounreay in Scotland.

«GEH has broad engineering experience, deep technical capability and significant investment in its sodium fast reactor technology program that builds on a 60 - year history as an original equipment manufacturer of more than 60 boiling water reactors worldwide,» said the company's president and CEO Jay Wileman.

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.

Closures included France's Phenix, a prototype fast reactor which produced 233 MWe, and Lithuania's Ignalina 2 which produced 1185 MWe but has been closed early as a condition of EU entry.

«BRITAIN has supported fast reactor research for 40 years, at a cost of some # 4 billion,» Bill Stewart, the Prime Minister's science adviser, said to me recently.

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.

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.

Britain's fast reactor programme has been running for nearly 40 years at a total cost of over # 4 billion.

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.

«The ARC Nuclear team brings decades of sodium fast reactor experience to this collaboration and, by working together, we can accelerate commercialization of this technology.»

«As you know,» he added, «The Russians have done a lot of work on fast reactor technology, and they have to find a cost - effective means of reducing their plutonium stockpile.

TerraPower also refers to a class of nuclear fast reactors that they are designing.

This was destined for future fast reactors.

Last October, GEH and Southern Nuclear signed an MoU to collaborate on the development and licensing of fast reactors including GEH's Prism.

Structural materials inside fast reactors thus undergo higher radiation damage rates than those in thermal reactors.

Coupling Reactor Types If advanced fast reactors come into use, they will at first burn spent thermal - reactor fuel that has been recycled using pyroprocessing.

One sodium fire began in 1995 at the Monju fast reactor in Japan.

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.

In reality, it's very difficult to keep the neutrons moving that quickly so fast reactors still need a bit of enriched uranium to operate, but U-238 is fissioned to much more of a degree than in thermal reactors.

«The PRISM reactor offered by GE - Hitachi [is] a fourth - generation fast reactor design which can generate zero - carbon power by consuming our plutonium and spent fuel stockpiles, thereby tackling both the nuclear waste and climate problems simultaneously; it is currently under consideration by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority as a promising alternative to Areva's MOX fuel for plutonium management.»

«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.

Beloyarsk 4 will be the most powerful fast reactor unit in the world at 789 MWe.

Under previously announced plans, deployment of PWRs is expected to level off at 200 GWe by around 2040, with the use of fast reactors progressively increasing from 2020 to at least 200 GWe by 2050 and 1400 GWe by 2100.

If fast reactors were used exclusively, transportation of highly radioactive materials would occur only under two circumstances — when the fission product waste was shipped to Yucca Mountain or an alternative site for disposal and when start - up fuel was shipped to a new reactor.

Fast reactors need plutonium and produce plutonium.

Thus, liquid sodium is the coolant of choice in fast reactors because it can effectively transfer heat away from the nuclear fuel, while at the same time maximizing the number of fast neutrons.

America's last fast reactor, the Experimental Breeder Reactor - II operated by Argonne National Laboratory, was shut down in 1994.

«At one time or another, [fast reactors] were a priority program in the U.S., Japan, France, Germany, Italy and Russia,» notes physicist Thomas Cochran of the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group.

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.

This mixture is, however, not only tolerable but advantageous for fueling fast reactors.

The research would culminate in the commissioning of the first European fast reactor (EFR) early next century.

Evaluating the safety of such new reactors will take time, of course, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has yet to receive an application from any of the would - be vendors of small modular reactors, whether fast reactors or scaled - down light - water reactors.