Sentences with phrase «first generation reactors»
They are operating the remaining 3 first generation reactors.
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Abagyan says that only 10 per cent of the safety improvements planned for first - generation reactors will need Western help.
More than a decade ago a contract was signed to build the world's first third - generation European pressurized reactor (EPR) in Finland.
Southern Co. and its partners have dug 27.5 meters down into that soil to reach bedrock and are now filling up the hole to provide a stable foundation for what is likely to be the first of a new generation of reactors in the U.S.: two new AP - 1000 models at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant that stand next to two older pressurized water reactors, which came online in the 1980s.
Five nuclear power stations in Britain use first - generation Magnox reactors, with steel pressure vessels.
«Nuclear was sort of proof of the greatness of France,» said Bernard Laponche, a French energy consultant who helped develop France's first generation of nuclear reactors.
Co-founder Mark Massie said building modern nuclear reactors on first - generation technology is analogous to building airliners out of the same wood and cloth the Wright brothers used in their prototype (ClimateWire, Dec. 15, 2014).
Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) has made its next - generation GNF3 boiling water reactor (BWR) fuel assembly available to customers for the first time.
To my mind, the Fukushima failure also builds the case for the kind of push under way in China, which is moving forward with construction of the first two of a new generation of nuclear reactors — cooled by helium, not water, and designed in a way that can not produce a meltdown of the fuel.
Increasing nuclear power plant efficiency from 1980 to today came from two areas: first, improvements to how operators re-fuel reactors, and keep plants and their workers safe; second, increasing the heat and electrical generation of plants through «up - rates.»
These would produce enough power to replace five large nuclear power stations, tellingly at about the same time as the first of the much - touted new generation of reactors is likely to come on stream.