Sentences with phrase «molten sodium»

Three piping loops would cool the reactor: the primary loop (using molten sodium), an intermediate sodium loop between the radioactive primary system and the steam generators, and a water loop to generate steam for the turbine.

The 280 MW Solana Generating Station will use a 60/40 alloy of molten Sodium and Potassium Nitrate salts to store the sun's concentrated heat energy, buffering solar input changes to meet 24/7 power demand.

Flowchart of Molten Sodium Upgrading process.

The MSG process, under license from Idaho National Laboratory, uses a combination of molten sodium salts (sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide) to convert... Read more →

Current processes require molten sodium, which has safety concerns and cost issues at large scales.

The restart of Monju entails the inherent dangers of a run away chain reaction and a serious accident caused by leakage of the molten sodium coolant.

In December 2005, over 700 kilograms of molten sodium coolant burst through a pipe, releasing toxic fumes and damaging the plant.

Future models may substitute molten sodium as the working fluid, which would allow higher temperatures without requiring higher pressures.

They dissolve spent fuel in liquid cadmium at 480 °C and pour it into an electrolyte of molten sodium, potassium and lithium chlorides.

The dynamo experiment at the University of Maryland is the biggest ever made with whirling molten sodium.

Not exact matches

And the 50 - megawatt Andasol plant is also the world's largest facility employing molten salts to store renewable energy: 28,500 tons of molten potassium and sodium nitrate salt in two tanks that bank excess solar heat for more than seven hours.

One might imagine, for instance, floating the coal electrode on a molten - sodium carbonate reaction - product electrolyte, and supplying oxygen to this electrolyte through a solid mobile - ion oxygen conducting ceramic electrolyte, and sodium to the electrolyte through a sodium - ion conducting solid electrolyte.

By the time he was 40, Weinberg had co-invented the pressurized water reactor, the boiling water reactor, the sodium fast reactor, the homogeneous reactor, the molten salt reactor, the atomic bomb — and the American Nuclear Society.

and now they want to install a sodium salt anhydrous heat transfer system (molten salt) there.

Tower CSP (concentrated solar power) is a thermal form of solar that uses reflected sunlight off mirrors (heliostats) that track the sun to remain focused onto a receiver at the top of a tower, where the reflected and concentrated sunlight, or solar flux, heats a molten salt mix of sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate (common chemicals also used in agriculture) to about 565 C.