Sentences with phrase «last research reactor»

Worse for nuclear technology development, the last research reactor was closed down in 1994.

Not exact matches

Which wise government spending (see: investment in technology and other productivity - enhancing measures) can help that last bit, which is one reason I'm all in favor of spending on alternative energy research (I'm a little sick of sending hundreds of billions of dollars per year overseas for hydrocarbons; I'd rather employ Americans to maintain windfarms, solar plants, not - on - the - table - now - but - maybe - soon thorium reactors, etc.).

The panel, known as the Neutron Landscape Group, said last week that as the aging reactors shut down over the next 5 to 10 years, the number of neutrons available for research will fall by as much as half.

Joint projects with Russian nuclear scientists began to ebb soon after President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, and reached a nadir last October when Russia suspended an agreement with the United States on nuclear R&D cooperation and terminated another on retooling Russian research reactors to no longer run on weapons - grade uranium fuel.

German engineers from the Max Planck Institute successfully activated the experimental nuclear fusion reactor used in the research last December and successfully managed to suspend plasma for the first time.

The U.S. has a program to help develop small - scale reactors, and in the U.K., the Treasury last month said it would plow 250 million pounds ($ 377 million) into researching the technology.