Sentences with phrase «modular reactor at»

We are pleased to announce that a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between our wholly owned subsidiary SMR, LLC and the U.S. Department of Energy Savannah River Office (DOE - SR), along with the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), has been executed to situate our first 160 MW (e) small modular reactor at the Savannah River Site (SRS).

The Department of Energy is developing a prototype modular reactor at its Savannah River site in Georgia, and Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois and Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico are also considering modular plants.

A test facility near Lynchburg, Va. is up and running to ensure that what looks good on paper will also work in practice and B&W already has one potential customer in the U.S. — the TVA — expressing an interest in building as many as six of the small modular reactors at its Clinch River site, former home of a failed effort to build a fast breeder reactor in the 1970s.

Not exact matches

«Yeah, there's less concrete and, yeah, there's less steel in the reactor vessel,» says nuclear engineer Eric Loewen, chief consulting engineer at GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, which is proposing a modular fast reactor to help the U.K. with its plutonium problem.

«Several technical and manufacturing innovations make this reactor a potential game changer for the global clean energy market,» said Christofer Mowry, president and CEO at Babcock & Wilcox Modular Nuclear Energy, LLC, the new unit in charge of the small reactor.

The NRC has begun discussions with Babcock & Wilcox Co. about its proposed mPower modular reactor design that is currently under consideration by the Tennessee Valley Authority for construction at TVA's Clinch River site in Tennessee.

And the birth of small, modular nuclear reactors — which can be built at lower cost and produce no greenhouse gas emissions — could play a significant role in helping to balance energy outflows from renewable sources.

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has invited small modular reactor project proponents to evaluate the construction and operation of a demonstration SMR project at a site it manages.

Modular reactors are manufactured at a plant and assembled at the site.

Terrestrial Energy has begun a feasibility study for the siting of the first commercial Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories» (CNL) Chalk River site, with a further vision of creating a technology hub at CNL to support the commercialisation of small modular reactors (SMR).

Also, at the WGA meeting, the governors announced a 10 - year energy vision which included as one of its goals, finding ways to accelerate the introduction of small modular reactors into the commercial marketplace.

«If we have a viable pathway at building nuclear power in smaller bites, the whole financing structure can change and make it much more affordable... If we can demonstrate let's say the first modular reactor in the early part of the next decade, then what we hope is it's part of the planning process in the middle of the next decade for our utilities.

The Obama administration deserves credit for authorizing funding for two small modular reactors, which will be built at the Savannah River site in South Carolina.

The EM2 concept is for a modular, 240 - 265 MWe helium cooled, fast neutron, high temperature reactor operating at 850 °C.

If we removed the impediments on nuclear power the cost of electricity from Small Modular r \ Reactors (SMR) could decrease at a rate of 10 % per doubling of capacity.

And, the nuclear industry is working on developing a new generation of small modular reactors that can provide power for cities or local communities at a much lower cost.

Success with ammonia means we will have developed and commercialized, at scale, with viable economics, infrastructure and supply chains, the following new technologies: CCS, SSAS, methane cracking, conventional and high temperature electrolysis and thermochemical water splitting for hydrogen production, nuclear heat sources and small modular reactors, and solar heat sources and renewable electricity of sufficient reliability to be integrated into high volume must - run industrial processes.

Small modular reactors won't be available for another decade at least, or possibly longer, and so couldn't play any large role in The Experiment, even if Californians accepted them, which they won't.

After a scenario of unique failures within several reactors at once, is the prospect of a dozen or more interrelated small modular reactors on one site still as attractive?

Canadian National Laboratory invites developers of small modular reactor (SMR) to develop demonstration FOAK units at the site