Sentences with phrase «in newer reactor designs»

This is a legitimate concern but I think it is being dealt with with in newer reactor designs.

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New reactor designs offer a generational leap in terms of cost and safety, but proponents have so far struggled to secure the billions of dollars in funding that renewables are getting.

The 22 new reactors proposed in the U.S. use so - called Gen III + designs that are safer than today's reactors, which date to the 1970s or earlier.

«In the wake of the Fukushima meltdown, the NRC also should suspend all of its licensing decisions on new designs, new reactors or relicense applications until it incorporates the lessons of the Japanese catastrophe into its plans and regulations,» Markey said.

This is one of many safety issues currently being investigated by his team at the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation in Bootle, as it considers licensing new, supposedly safer, reactor designs from companies like Japanese - owned Westinghouse Electric and French - owned Areva.

So people are investing seriously, and there are some designs and perhaps one prototype for trying to use it as a way of monitoring nuclear reactor activity so that international monitors could have a new tool in their hands.

If the license is issued, the first new design reactor in the U.S. in decades would start delivering 1,100 megawatts of power by 2016.

South Korea has embarked on the development of a preliminary concept design for a fusion power demonstration reactor in collaboration with the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in New Jersey.

But neither the South Texas facility nor the applications for new reactors at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland and the Shearon Harris nuclear plant outside Raleigh, N.C., have completed the NRC's long design safety and feasibility evaluation, which could take years to complete.

(Invited) Recent Progress in Fundamental Photoelectrochemical Studies Relevant to New Low - Cost Designs for Z - Scheme Solar Water Splitting Reactors.

One is found in a new generation of meltdown proof nuclear like some of the pebble - bed reactor designs.

To my mind, the Fukushima failure also builds the case for the kind of push under way in China, which is moving forward with construction of the first two of a new generation of nuclear reactors — cooled by helium, not water, and designed in a way that can not produce a meltdown of the fuel.

«New reactor designs could make nuclear meltdowns physically impossible, and nanoengineered membranes could block carbon emissions in fossil - fueled power plants.

Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor — and it's one that might be realized in as little as a decade, they say.

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).

The GRSR process reviews the completely - or partially - developed safety cases of new reactor designs that are not yet in the licensing stage.

What's needed now is a new national commitment to the development, testing, demonstration, and early stage commercialization of a broad range of new nuclear technologies — from much smaller light - water reactors to next generation ones — in search of a few designs that can be mass produced and deployed at a significantly lower cost than current designs.

There are eight new small modular reactors on a fast track to generic approval in the US — and more than 45 designs under development globally.

It is the fourth large reactor design to gain generic NRC approval since new procedures in the early 1990s.

Greenpeace had told them that the EPR and AP1000 reactor designs were untried and untested anywhere in the world; and that the vendors and operators of the potential new reactors had not yet presented firm plans for the longer - term storage of spent fuel.

New reactor designs, especially in France, have improved safety further, with multiple backup cooling systems.

Several new reactor designs have been proposed in the United States and elsewhere.

«Yet newer helium - cooled reactors designs have proved attractive — at least in China.

Compare that to new reactors being built in India of both Indian and Russian design and its almost sh

(The DOE also is apparently considering a different fast reactor design that would use high - assay, low - enriched uranium fuel, but this material is in short supply and a new production source would have to be established.