Sentences with phrase «nuclear core»

It provides stable long - term nuclear core cooling and plant recovery under all design basis accident conditions and also provides severe accident mitigation for low probability beyond design basis accidents.

Then scientists discovered they could transfer nuclear material (the DNA contained in chromosomes) from cells of an embryo to an egg whose own nuclear core had been sucked out.

NuScale's innovative and comprehensive safety features are incorporated to provide stable long - term nuclear core cooling under all conditions, including severe accidents.

The new game takes an expectedly isometric approach to allow players to manage their mech suits in turn - based combat with all sorts of possibilities and considerations, like suplex - style takedowns and overheating nuclear cores.

NuScale has achieved a breakthrough in the safety of a nuclear power plant, using simple passive systems to provide stable long - term, nuclear core cooling under all conditions, including severe accidents.

But, although the risk of a nuclear core meltdown is very low, the impact of such an event creates a stigma around the noncarbon power source.

The explosions at reactors No. 1 and 3 destroyed the surrounding buildings but have apparently not damaged the massive steel containment vessel — as much as 20 centimeters thick — that surrounds each reactor's nuclear core.

At reactors 1 and 3 there have been explosions of hydrogen gas powerful enough to blow the roof off their outer containment buildings, but the reactor pressure vessels containing the nuclear core appear to have stood firm.

Its surface is a sizzling 6000 °C, but the corona, despite being further from the sun's nuclear core, reaches more than a million degrees.

«We need to join the ceramic to ceramic in a way that can withstand the conditions in the nuclear core,» Kazimi says.

By Monday, the plant was operating at 23 percent capacity because of limits on the amount of water it could use from the Connecticut River to cool its nuclear core.

Normal atoms have all their neutrons locked tightly in the nuclear core, but halo nuclei have a ring of neutrons orbiting far away from the rest of nucleus.

Nuclear core cooling occurs without any external power, which limits plant vulnerability and eliminates loss of off - site power as an issue.

The size of the reactor's nuclear core is a fraction of those of large conventional nuclear power plants, with an attendant small radioactive source term.

The term «advanced» reactor is used to denote futuristic reactor designs that use molten salts, liquid metals or gasses as coolants to remove energy from their nuclear cores.

These include things like a grappling hook, a decoy, the ability to hang off walls, a nuclear core for your titan to self - destruct, or the ability to hover when aiming in midair.