Sentences with phrase «last fast reactor»
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But a spokesman for Dounreay, Ian Shepherd, stresses that comprehensive monitoring of the site started last autumn as part of a multimillion pound programme to decommission two fast reactors and their associated plants.
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What's more, the ratio of ruthenium - 106 to the faster - decaying isotope ruthenium - 103, detected in smaller amounts last autumn, reveals that the fuel must have been removed from its reactor only a year or two earlier.
An unlikely alliance between Japan and Russia is emerging as the last refuge of the fast reactor now that Western Europe and the US have effectively abandoned the technology.
Last December, the government also formally announced its decision to decommission the idled Monju prototype fast breeder reactor.
Last October, GEH and Southern Nuclear signed an MoU to collaborate on the development and licensing of fast reactors including GEH's Prism.
«This time» refers to the long - awaited opportunity to deliver the PRISM integral fast reactor that has been in development since the early - 1980s — an opportunity that last month saw Loewen visit the UK to give evidence to the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee of MPs.
Last, the ultimate inherently safe reactors the nuclear industry wants to build are the same liquid sodium fast breeder reactors that can explode or melt down.
And nuclear power is just as sustainable as any other power source — even if we only use conventional nuclear fast reactor designs, there is enough uranium in the oceans and on land (recoverable at prices that allow the fuel costs of fast reactors to remain the same as today — which is trivial) to last for 5 billlion years, the expected time remaining fo our sun.
Just last year, ten reactors — eight in China, one in South Korea, and an experimental fast reactor in Russia — connected to the grid with 9.4 gigawatts total capacity, the most since 1990.
This would make the reactor about five times larger than the last experimental fast reactor operated in the United States, the EBR - II, which shut down in 1994.