Sentences with phrase «light water reactors»

About 95 percent of the available energy remains in used fuel removed from light water reactors.

Organizations that currently have active engagements with NuScale include: Idaho National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Center for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors), Sandia National Laboratories, Oregon State University, University of Wisconsin, and the Electric Power Research Institute.

Safety and flexibility NuScale has designed an extraordinarily safe Integral Pressurized Water Reactor (IPWR) based on light water reactor technology proven in operation for over 50 years.

«It further includes deployment of small modular light water reactors in the mid-2020s.

HI - STAR 60's loaded weight is approximately 60 tons which makes it the only cask for light water reactor fuel shippable by truck in Holtec's fleet at this time.

Chief Nuclear Officer of SMR LLC, Vice President of Reactor Technologies Mr. Tom Marcille is Vice President of Reactor Technologies at Holtec International with the ultimate responsibility to develop and license SMR - 160, a unique and innovative passive light water reactor system for the emerging global power markets.

The SMR - 160 is a single loop, 160 MWe pressurized light water reactor designed by Holtec to be «walk away» safe and commercially competitive.

Unlike the TerraPower concept, the mPower reactor relies on an advanced light water reactor cooling technology that NRC staff have deeply examined for decades.

The SMR - 160 is a single loop, 160 MWe pressurized light water reactor...

He is currently Vice President of Reactor Technologies at Holtec International with the ultimate responsibility to develop and license SMR - 160, a unique and innovative passive light water reactor system for the emerging global power markets.

Uranium metal enriched with Uranium - 235 is used in heavy water reactors while light water reactors use low enriched Uranium.

There are some 50 modular designs being developed globally, and while many are traditional light water reactors, which use water to cool the reactor core, others gain efficiency by using coolants such as gas, which allow reactors to reach higher temperatures.

«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 regulations.

Lead researcher Dr Ahmed Abdulla, from UC San Diego, said: «In theory, advanced, non-light water reactors are a promising carbon - free technology, which could complement or replace light water reactors.

In order to become commercially viable, FBRs must become at least as economic as light water reactors.

It proceeds through construction of more large light water reactors, like the four being built in Georgia and South Carolina,» she said.

Weinberg thought there was something wrong with light water reactor designs, and his view was influential even among nuclear's antagonists.

He has also been intimately involved with new plant development and deployment including advanced light water reactors, small modular reactors and advance non-light water reactors.

In this agreement, both states committed to dispose of at least 34 metric tons of excess weapons grade plutonium, primarily as MOX fuel for light water reactors (LWR).

The reactors that will be used by NRG in the South Texas Project are of a type dubbed the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (pdf), the latest iteration of a thoroughly vetted design that has been safely used for a decades, the light water reactor.

The report's conclusions, released in a preview last year, are that light water reactors, the mainstay of the U.S. fleet, will remain the «preferred option» for U.S. nuclear plants for decades.

It is a light water reactor with the reactor, steam generator, and spent fuel pool located inside the containment.

This has Candu reactors, pressurized heavy water reactors, which are very different from the light water reactors in Finland.

However, based on the construction costs of Monju, scaling up to commercial size would result in costs several times greater than light water reactors.

The NuScale SMR consists of integrated pressurized water reactor modules, designed on the light water reactor technology that has safely operated worldwide for the past 70 years.

While there is a huge reduction in the volume of waste from a fast reactor, the activity of the waste is about the same as that produced by a light water reactor.

about COLLOQUIUM: CASL: Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub

CASL applies existing M&S capabilities and develops advanced capabilities to create a usable environment for predictive simulation of light water reactors (LWRs).

The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) is the first U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Innovation Hub, established in July 2010 for the modeling and simulation (M&S) of nuclear reactors.

We have also demonstrated that molten salt reactor designs work and are much safer than today's light water reactors.

Eight of these designs have recently been costed at 40 % less than large, light water reactors.

Moreover, improved (3rd generation) light water reactors are available for near - term needs.