Sentences with phrase «largest research reactor»

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If the president's request is approved by Congress it will put a severe squeeze on the U.S. domestic fusion program and will force the closure of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Alcator C - Mod reactor, one of only three large machines, known as tokamaks, in the United States that are doing vital research in preparation for ITER.

In addition, the team found that large proportions of the NE budget were spent maintaining research infrastructure that only marginally supports advanced reactors.

The tubes were tested inside MIT's research reactor in special loops that replicate the coolant temperature and chemistry conditions in large power reactors.

«In addition, new technologies, such as small modular reactors (SMRs), are being researched and developed, and a number of large European - wide R&D programmes are being carried out».

Research on the Princeton Large Torus found there was no evidence of a universal instability, and that temperatures close to those required for a reactor could be generated efficiently.

During that time, the NRU has been one of the largest and most versatile high - flux research reactors in the world, and an important supplier of medical isotopes.

With apologies to my high - energy physics colleagues and to NASA, basic natural systems monitoring is much less expensive than high - energy colliders, fusion reactor research or manned Mars missions, but will help to provide better understanding of the lesser known parts of climate and hydrologic systems (aerosols, clouds, large - scale climate connections, S. Hemisphere data, etc).