Sentences with phrase «if reactors»

Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen said it was not clear if the reactors to be shut down in the three - month moratorium would remain closed or be reconnected to the grid afterwards.

Dangerous nuclear weapons proliferation increasing the chance of nuclear war if reactors are used to produce weapons; 2.

Even if all reactors scheduled to come online by 2015 make it, the projected closing of 93 nuclear reactors by then will drop nuclear power generation roughly 10 percent below the current level.

If all reactors being built are ultimately completed, total nuclear generating capacity will decline by at least 2,806 MW (three percent) by 2025, planned additions against planned retirements.

If the reactors are suitably designed, a minimum of supervision should make it possible to prevent the substitution of uranium and thorium for the inert structure of the materials of the reactors.

But Southern Co., the primary developer, is permitted to recapture costs during construction, and another project partner has a «hell or high water» sales contract requiring customers to keep paying down on the project's debt even if the reactors can't be completed.

However, the fact that no serious accident has yet occurred is offset by the massiveness of the catastrophe that would result if the reactors safeguards failed.

Zirconium readily generates explosive hydrogen gas if reactor coolant stops circulating.

If the reactor is sited at Cadarache, the 25 commissioners said, «Japan could receive favorable conditions to reflect its special contribution.»

He determined that if the reactor operator walked out to the pool every hour & 1/2 and urinated in it, the evaporative loss would be made up for.

If the reactor were shut in and sunk, you could have serious issues.

ChE I could be wrong but one of the many fail safes is that if the reactor is scrammed the core automatically fills with water.

If a reactor was judged unfit to continue in operation, the operator would receive no compensation.

If the reactor shuts down at night it cools off, not just wasting residual heat, but starting over from nothing next morning.

Not exact matches

If all goes well, a working prototype could be finished by 2015, and a working reactor is planned for the end of the decade.

If we begin to see an increasing pace of Japanese reactor restarts, the gain will truly and really be one.

A major signal for this view will be if the British / French agree to the building of the nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point in the U.K, Brexit be damned.

No one asks if Cherenkov radiation is proof of djinn in a nuclear reactor.

The closure date for the reactors could be pushed back to 2024 and 2025 if both the state and Entergy agree, according to the Times.

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.

Instead of 10 reactors, by 2025 we will probably have two, and even these, planned by EDF to be sited at Hinkley Point in Somerset, are in doubt if arrangements to fund EDF very generously towards the cost of producing power over a 40 - year period are not concluded soon.

If the Ginna and FitzPatrick reactors both close, New York will be left with four reactors, including two at Indian Point.

The reactor's designed to make a safe shutdown if the control rods lose electricity.

The owner of the Nine Mile 1 nuclear reactor told state officials the plant is likely to close if new «clean energy» subsidies are not in place by September.

Exelon, which owns three of the four upstate reactors and is seeking to buy the fourth, has said it will close one of them if subsidies are not in place by September.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - If Entergy shuts down the FitzPatrick nuclear power plant as planned, the reactor could sit dormant for 50 years before its owner begins to tear it down and clean up the site.

The new proposal will in fact benefit Exelon Corporation, which has threatened to shut down one of the two reactors at Nine Mile Point in Oswego County as well as its Ginna facility in Wayne County if it did not get subsidies.

Control room operators safely shut down the Indian Point 2 reactor around 5:30 p.m., owner Entergy Corp. said in a statement, adding the reactor did what it's intended to do if control rods lose electricity.

Exelon made the offer because it can use the fuel at one of its 23 reactors if Entergy declines it, Exelon officials said.

If the 620 - megawatt Nine Mile 1 reactor closes, it would be the second of Oswego County's three nuclear reactors to close.

Cuomo aides say New York's progress in reducing carbon emissions would be set back if one or more of the four Upstate nuclear reactors shut down.

Burnell referred to the water reservoir above the shield building that floods the reactor containment area if normal reactor cooling systems fail.

Nor did the modeling analyze what would happen if a powerful earthquake immediately destroyed safety equipment or ripped a hole in the structure containing the reactor itself.

Another issue for critics is whether the water delivered from the elevated reservoir in an emergency would continue to cool the reactor if there were a sustained loss of power for emergency pumps.

If not, the vapor would enter a second chamber for electrolysis.The oxygen would be siphoned off to the lunar habitat or to fuel storage tanks, while the hydrogen would return to the reactor for reuse.

TEPCO modeling and analyses suggest that most, if not all, of the fuel in the Unit 1 reactor melted, burned through the reactor pressure vessel, dropped to the bottom of the containment vessel, and perhaps ate into the concrete base.

As if that was not enough, runaway electrons are wreaking havoc in the fusion reactors that are currently being developed.

If it receives funding and passes regulatory hurdles, the reactor could be operational by 2020 and power up to 70,000 homes.

But if we do away with solid vessels and use magnetic fields (such as in fusion reactors) instead, then higher temperatures can be reached.

«The staff has contended pretty much all along that they will have to meet the same security requirements as all of the large reactors,» says Michael Mayfield, director of the Division of Advanced Reactors and Rulemaking in the NRC's Office of New Reactors, noting that a timeline for licenses could be expedited if such reactors are simply scaled down versions of existing light water reactors that do not require new regureactors,» says Michael Mayfield, director of the Division of Advanced Reactors and Rulemaking in the NRC's Office of New Reactors, noting that a timeline for licenses could be expedited if such reactors are simply scaled down versions of existing light water reactors that do not require new reguReactors and Rulemaking in the NRC's Office of New Reactors, noting that a timeline for licenses could be expedited if such reactors are simply scaled down versions of existing light water reactors that do not require new reguReactors, noting that a timeline for licenses could be expedited if such reactors are simply scaled down versions of existing light water reactors that do not require new regureactors are simply scaled down versions of existing light water reactors that do not require new regureactors that do not require new regulations.

The pump could not have serviced both of the plant's reactors if they lost normal water supply simultaneously, the NRC staff said.

If fuel rods remain uncovered, they may begin to melt, and hot, radioactive fuel can pool at the bottom of the vessel containing the reactor.

If the «nuclear renaissance» is not dead, it appeared in a coma for most of the country following the collapse of Constellation Energy's plan to build a third reactor on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay shore, energy officials said this weekend.

Even if Max can get potable water from the top of his reactor, will such a system ever be commercially viable?

The low - level waste volume stands to rise somewhat if some new reactors come on line, but not significantly, said Mitch Singer, a spokesman for NEI.

It says only that «there might be a problem some time after 2010» if old reactors are not replaced by other «non-CO2 emitting generators».

That hydrogen can then be released from the reactor core and containment vessel and, if it accumulates in sufficient quantities — concentrations of 4 percent or more in the air — it can explode, as has apparently occurred at reactors No. 1 and 3, and possibly No. 2 as well.

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

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.

Even if the repository is finally approved, and tests show that storing the surplus plutonium is safe, large - scale vitrification could not start until about 2005 — about four years after reactors could conceivably start consuming MOX fuel.