Sentences with phrase «maintain nuclear reactors»

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So he is going to have to cut the Defense Department's operations even more than he suggested, or increase the Defense budget by around 10 billion dollars to accommodate the department's new responsibilities or hope that nuclear weapons and military nuclear reactors will produce and maintain themselves.

Some people state that Ghana maintains several research reactors ready on standby for the processing of highly enriched uranium (HEU) into tactical nuclear weapons (TNW).

Although the complex was shut down in December 2000, the reactors are still being emptied of their nuclear fuel, so they have to be maintained and checked.

These reactors have the intriguing feature that the water used to cool the core and run the generating turbine is also essential to maintaining a nuclear chain reaction.

«Our inspectors found all the reactors would be kept safe even in the event their regular safety systems were affected by these events, although a few plants have to do a better job maintaining the necessary resources and procedures,» said Eric Leeds, director of the NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

Camera company Kodak maintained a small nuclear reactor and weapons - grade uranium in a basement at its headquarters in Rochester, New York, for over 30 years.

The regulators, sitting on one side of a long conference table, and the company officials, on the other side, share an overriding goal — maintaining safeguards that can prevent an incident or error from triggering a nuclear reactor emergency that could jeopardize the industry's future.

So, by providing good responses to the sustainability and the waste toxicity, fast reactors have maintained the interest of much of the forward - looking nuclear crowd.

In general, the report suggests that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has failed to ensure that reactor staff are capable of properly maintaining nuclear faciNuclear Regulatory Commission has failed to ensure that reactor staff are capable of properly maintaining nuclear facinuclear facilities.

«Energy production relies on mechanical engineers to design, build and maintain structures and systems that collect, contain and transmit vast amounts of energy, from wind turbine blades, gearboxes and towers to high pressure boilers and nuclear reactors.»