Sentences with phrase «future reactor technologies»

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«The technology with the potential to solve these problems (of climate change, future energy shortfalls and cleaning up nuclear waste) is the fast reactor, ideally the integral fast reactor (IFR)... IFRs, once loaded with nuclear waste, can, in principle, keep recycling it until only a small fraction remains, producing energy as they do so.»

However, it is very important for Japan - a resource - poor country committed to being a global leader in science and technology - to continue the technological development of fast reactors in anticipation of the future.»

CNL's RFEOI was launched following the release of the nuclear research and technology organisation's long - term plan, which set out a vision for the future of Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario after the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor closes down on 31 March 2018 after 60 years of operations.

More generally, the authors talk about the possibility that future technologies will provide reactor designs that are safer, more secure, and less of a proliferation risk.