Sentences with phrase «from reactor operations»

Response: Informed by over six decades of lessons learned from reactor operations, SMR - 160 is designed to be an extremely safe power plant.

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North Carolina gets 32 percent of its total electricity from five nuclear reactors currently in operation in the state.

According to Sternglass, when this reactor went into operation, infant mortality in my county increased 300 per cent and deaths from congenital malformation increased sixfold.

These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands of years.

Britain has 16 reactors in operation that came online from the 1970s to 1990s, and all but one will be retired by 2023 unless they get extensions.

Thermal fluids are used to alleviate wear on components and tools and for machining operations like stamping and drilling, medical therapy and diagnosis, biopharmaceuticals, air conditioning, fuel cells, power transmission systems, solar cells, micro - and nanoelectronic mechanical systems and cooling systems for everything from engines to nuclear reactors.

The slow up - flow of water in the reactor vessel insures that little radioactive crud produced from long term operation carries to the above - ground portion of the reactor coolant system.

The fissionable materials for such power reactors would be derived from the operation of the production plants of the Authority.

From 2013 - 16, six reactors permanently ceased operation (Crystal River, Kewaunee, San Onofre - 2, San Onofre - 3, Vermont Yankee, Fort Calhoun), totaling 4,862 MW of generation capacity.

Although radiation leakage has been reported, the reactor core containment is said still to be intact, But if the cooling operation is not successful then there is a risk that, aside from the (hopefully low) possibility of a explosion as at Chernobyl, or a hydrogen explosion (as was feared at one time at Three Mile Island in the USA), melting fuel could burn through the core and the floor of the reactor building and enter the soil, a risk that would be heightened if the floor structure was cracked by the earthquake.

Deaths in the US from the operation of commercial nuclear reactors in the past five decades: 0.

It was undisputed that the request was justified from a public policy perspective, as concern had been expressed regarding risks to public health in the area, arising from operations at the nearby firing range, decommissioned nuclear reactor and nuclear processing facilities.