Sentences with phrase «generation reactors»

It is a 4th generation reactor design that uses depleted uranium.

Next generation reactors we are building right now can burn fuel more efficiently and produce less waste — and even burn the waste from older reactors.

They are operating the remaining 3 first generation reactors.

A fourth generation reactor designed by GEH, PRISM incorporates the groundbreaking features of the Argonne Laboratory's project, representing a technological leap that could power the UK or similar countries for hundreds of years with used nuclear fuel that is already on hand.

China and South Korea are building the third - generation reactors with fewer construction delays and cost overruns than their Western counterparts.

These improved measurements will be essential for next - generation reactor neutrino experiments such as the JUNO experiment being built 200 kilometers away from Daya Bay.

Instead, several respondents heaped abuse on the potential of nuclear power in general despite the fact that the great bulk of their criticisms related to the shortcomings of third generation reactors.

Nuclear defenders are calling for keeping things in perspective — fossil fuels, they point out, have many more costs and risks associated with them than nuclear power; and newer generation reactor designs are far safer than those built in Japan many decades ago (a number of US plants from the same era have the same or similar designs).

Let alone exciting things such as social unrest, power generation reactors are subject to the more mundane problems of boredom, sloth, indolence, greed and failed imagination.

Because of this, a portion of the $ 25B that has been collected from utilities to deal with nuclear waste justifiably could be used to develop 4th generation reactors.

A Small Modular Reactor (SMR) programme represents a once in a lifetime opportunity for UK nuclear companies to design, manufacture and build next generation reactors to meet the UK's energy needs.

In its efforts to develop safer, cheaper, and more efficient nuclear reactors, the Idaho National Laboratory has researched half a dozen next - generation reactor designs; these two (the sodium - cooled fast reactor and the very - high - temperature reactor) are the most promising.

But first - generation reactors have no such tank and no other form of containment.

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

The safety features and power backups built into third - generation reactors should shut them down safely even without electrical power

The third - generation reactors have safety features that should prevent a meltdown similar to Fukushima's but political controversy, along with the high price tag means that new nuclear complexes in the U.S. and Europe could be in the single digits instead of dozens originally planned less than a decade ago.

The plan boosts funding, however, for the Generation IV program that supports multinational research and development for next - generation reactors and also would increase funding for fuel - cycle research and development within DoE's nuclear energy office.

A new era for nuclear power is taking shape as third - generation reactors, designed to be simpler and safer, inch through the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) design certification process.

[iii] 4th generation reactors can include automatic shutdown in case of an earthquake or other interruption.

Each EPR reactor should produce around 1,600 megawatts (MW) of electricity, versus 900 MW for most second - generation reactors.

The EPR is a third - generation reactor, designed to be safer, more efficient, and less susceptible to a terrorist attack.