Sentences with phrase «first reactors»

The current nuclear waste that we have sitting at the bottom of spent fuel pools and in dry cask storage would be more than enough to fuel the first reactors.

Ohi 1 and 2 are the first reactors with capacities over 1000 MWe to be decommissioned in Japan following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011.

Her company will build in China, she points out, and would like to build the first reactors in the Persian Gulf.

Lockheed Martin Corp said on Wednesday it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready in a decade.

In recent months, the proposal has stirred back to life as the Saudi government kicked off a formal process to solicit bids for their first reactors.

First reactors or first responders?

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.

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.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have combined biology and 3 - D printing to create the first reactor that can continuously produce methanol from methane at room temperature and pressure.

We are gratified to have the support of the Savannah River National Laboratory in your state, which has consented to hosting our first reactor installation at their sprawling facility.

Early in 1942, after then most of a year of their work at Columbia, Szilard was thinking, «Where should they build the first reactor?»

The plant's first reactor, now retired, began operation in 1970.

Gates has money in Canadian company that is building it's first reactor in China.

Not exact matches

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 1960 the US gave Pakistan a $ 350,000 grant to help prepare Pakistan for its first research reactor which the United States agreed to supply two years later.

The installation of the GWE COHRAL (TM) technology by Australian environmental engineering and green energy authority CST Wastewater solutions is the first GWE COHRAL (TM) installation in the world, deploying for the first time in a covered lagoon GWE anaerobic technology proven in more than 300 reactor (tank) installations worldwide.

While GWE's anaerobic waste water technology has been proved worldwide at more than 300 installations of totally enclosed tanks, or reactors, this is the first time it has been applied to a covered lagoon, an application where it has enormous further potential in countries with strong agribusiness sectors.

The installation of the GWE COHRAL ™ technology by Australian environmental engineering and green energy authority CST Wastewater solutions is the first GWE COHRAL ™ installation in the world, deploying for the first time in a covered lagoon GWE anaerobic technology proven in more than 300 reactor (tank) installations worldwide.

Just weeks after taking power Theresa May has landed her first major diplomatic row — with the Chinese government going nuclear over plans to pause the new reactor at Hinkley Point.

In December, Indian Point's reactor 3 is up for renewal for the first time it's 40 - year history by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

He maintains that some combination of new generators and new transmission lines could be ready in time to cope with summer 2016, the first peak demand period that power - hungry New York City and Long Island would face without both reactors.

They hypothesize that the first explosive event was a jet of debris ejected to very high altitudes by a series of nuclear explosions within the 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.

The resulting organic soup flows into a flash vessel where pressure drops dramatically, liberating some of the water, which returns back upstream to preheat the flow into the first - stage reactor.

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.

Spent fuel from Sizewell B, Britain's first pressurised water reactor, will not be sent to Sellafield for reprocessing.

On Wednesday, the government's nuclear power utility inked a deal to buy at least two power reactors from France — India's first major nuclear purchase from the West since it exploded an atom bomb in 1974 and came under international sanctions.

The first thing to be appreciated about reactors in the United States is that they are essentially immune to the type of accident that occurred at Chernobyl in April 1986.

A first - stage reactor breaks down the stuff with heat and pressure, after which the pressure rapidly drops, flashing off excess water and minerals.

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.

First, fence off the contaminated area around the reactors.

The reactor, first begun in the 1970s and resumed in 2007, is behind schedule and «will cost more than forecast,» admits TVA spokesman Terry Johnson.

Operating at high pressure and temperature, such reactors are not truly novel, having propelled the first commercial nuclear ships, such as the nuclear - powered cargo ship named Savannah, in past decades.

A liquid containing the desired chemical trigger is first fed into the reactor, to mix with the cells.

Strauss - Kahn was talking in Paris at a public hearing on Superphenix, the world's first commercial scale, fast - breeder reactor.

Japan switched on a nuclear reactor for the first time in nearly two years on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to reassure a nervous public

If we were to begin today, the first of the fast reactors might come online in about 15 years.

The AP1000 has received design certification from the NRC, and the first AP1000 design reactors are currently under construction in China.

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.

«We are the first to use both light and heat to synthesize liquid hydrocarbons in a single stage reactor from carbon dioxide and water,» said Brian Dennis, UTA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and co-principal investigator of the project.

Nuclear Electric expects to finish loading uranium dioxide fuel into Britain's first commercial pressurised - water reactor this week.

We understand that their first fast reactors will use oxide or carbide fuel rather than metal — a less than optimum path, chosen presumably because the PUREX reprocessing technology is mature, whereas pyroprocessing has not yet been commercially demonstrated.

Abagyan says that only 10 per cent of the safety improvements planned for first - generation reactors will need Western help.

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.