Sentences with phrase «first reactor built»
After all, the first reactor built at Qinshan back in 1990 — the first reactor ever designed and constructed entirely by the Chinese — had to be torn down and rebuilt because of faults in the foundation as well as defects in the welding of the steel vessel that contained the reactor itself.
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May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.
In a decade, they could build their first full - sized reactor.
In fact, throughout the first week of the Fukushima crisis, emergency workers tried to figure out a way to open up a larger hole in the Unit 2 reactor building, which had not suffered an explosion, to allow better access to inject cooling water without creating the kind of spark that might cause another hydrogen blast.
Contrary to a stubborn myth, however, countries do not decide to build nuclear weapons because they happen to get nuclear reactors first; they acquire nuclear reactors because they want to build nuclear weapons.
Nuclear power has attracted new interests in the U.S.. Two reactors under construction near Waynesboro, Ga., will be the first built here in 30 years.
As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor.
One of the biggest ongoing projects is ITER in France, an international effort to build the first magnetic fusion reactor that pumps out more energy than it consumes.
We are building our first two new nuclear reactors since the early 1970s at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant [in eastern Georgia], and that's a start.
The Tennessee Valley Authority recently announced plans to build the nation's first small modular reactor in eastern Tennessee.
Not to be outdone, Suffolk County Council, on whose flat shoreland stands Sizewell B, Britain's first pressurised - water reactor, has announced a public inquiry into the proposal to build a replica of the PWR on the site.
Almost under the blue - green dome of Britain's first pressurised - water reactor, now nearing completion on the flat shoreline of Suffolk, is a purpose - built Job Centre.
The first «turnkey» plant, Oyster Creek nuclear generating station in New Jersey was sold for less than $ 100 million in 1964 — a price well below what it would ultimately cost to build the reactor.
More than a decade ago a contract was signed to build the world's first third - generation European pressurized reactor (EPR) in Finland.
The first safety concern arose four years ago over the durability of the reactor's shield building.
Since then, Wallace has intermittently made new announcements about incremental progress toward building a new reactor about 45 miles south of Washington, which could be the first U.S. nuclear plant put on order and built since 1973.
In the U.S., many power industry experts doubt that more than a few reactors will be built, at least until company executives see how the first ones go.
Her company will build in China, she points out, and would like to build the first reactors in the Persian Gulf.
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).
The main start was in Chicago because it was there that they built the — Fermi and Zinn built the first reactor that actually operated under the west stands and that was right across the street from where I was studying chemistry.
We were building it to drop on Germany because we thought that the Germans were building a reactor and that they would eventually drop»em on us and so we wanted to get there first.
Taishan 1 and 2 are the first two reactors based on the EPR design to be built in China.
The PRISM reactor builds on this sodium - cooled reactor experience first pioneered in 1951 to turn the binding energy of the atom into electrical energy.
Early in 1942, after then most of a year of their work at Columbia, Szilard was thinking, «Where should they build the first reactor?»
«What's much more likely is that the first Prism reactors will be built in a country that has a more autocratic style of government — like Russia or China or something like that.
First, by basing the NuScale design on light - water reactor technology, we are able to build on the vast global experience with this technology, including material performance, water chemistry, transient behaviors, etc..
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.
«If we have a viable pathway at building nuclear power in smaller bites, the whole financing structure can change and make it much more affordable... If we can demonstrate let's say the first modular reactor in the early part of the next decade, then what we hope is it's part of the planning process in the middle of the next decade for our utilities.
The first three Hubs were for energy efficient buildings, nuclear reactors, and fuels from sunlight.
A Northwest company is aiming to build the country's first house - sized reactor that can put electricity onto the grid.
* The MH - 1A Sturgis floating nuclear power plant, a 45 - MW pressurized water reactor, was the first floating nuclear plant to be built (and the last nuclear power plant built and operated by the U.S. Army).
Gates has money in Canadian company that is building it's first reactor in China.
The US has been building small modular nuclear reactors since the 1950's when the first nuclear powered submarine was launched.
The last new U.S. nuclear power reactor built went into operation in 1996, but construction on that unit began before the Three Mile Island incident in 1979 helped slam the brakes on the industry's first phase of widespread growth.
To make any difference with nuclear you first have to replace the retiring reactors and then start building ones that can start replacing coal plants.
Just a week ago, Obama announced that the first nuclear reactor to be built in the US in over 30 years was receiving an $ 8 billion loan guarantee.
It shows the location, operating status and generating capacity of all 667 reactors that have been built, or are under construction, around the world, ever since Russia's tiny Obninsk plant became the first to supply power to the grid in 1954.