Sentences with phrase «new reactor designs»

Don't we want to educate the public about the benefits of new reactor designs?

This is a legitimate concern but I think it is being dealt with with in newer reactor designs.

New reactor designs hold promise but they are all at least 15 years away.

These include accident tolerant fuels, small modular reactors, and other new reactor designs.

New reactor designs aim for a span of 60 years that might be extended to 80.

What's the proper comparison of possible benefits of new reactor designs to the possible disasters involved in handling the accumulating nuclear waste?

China has become the nuclear industry's living laboratory for new reactor designs and the learning that comes from actual construction.

New reactor designs offer a generational leap in terms of cost and safety, but proponents have so far struggled to secure the billions of dollars in funding that renewables are getting.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

China is likely to become the first country in which new reactor designs are built and tested at full size.

I urge you to read the excerpts below, click to read the rest and return here to discuss the lessons he points to from France's program, China's push into new reactor designs and his argument that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission needs as much revision as our antiquated nuclear technology.

It also evaluates new reactor designs.

Several new reactor designs have been proposed in the United States and elsewhere.

Something else came up, like certifying new reactor designs and approving 20 - year extensions to the operating licenses of problem - plagued reactors.

Popular CPD courses include seminars on new reactor designs and security issues.

The GRSR process reviews the completely - or partially - developed safety cases of new reactor designs that are not yet in the licensing stage.

Judges were impressed with a new reactor design to increase yield, a recovery scheme to create saleable products from waste and an overall reduction in waste and energy used.

Newer reactor designs have yet to prove that they can provide survivable backup.

Analysts questioned Korsnick about the industry's high upfront capital costs for new reactors and reports that licensing for some new reactor designs could reach up to $ 1 billion.

We're your associates in providing you regulatory guidance, new reactor designs, new build work, O&M services and parts, life - extension work, decommissioning and waste management, just to name a few.

New reactor designs that are smaller, simpler, and safer may accelerate the deployment of commercial nuclear in these sub-Saharan countries.

B&W is also actively marketing a new reactor design of its own - the 180 MWe mPower.

The take home conclusions are 1) Newer reactor designs should be even better for surviving earthquake and external power outages and 2) It will be hard to under estimate problems (like flooding) now that the results from under estimating have been shown.

New reactor designs, especially in France, have improved safety further, with multiple backup cooling systems.

Pre-application reviews of new reactor designs are expected to identify and address: