Sentences with phrase «nuclear plant design»

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The typical job responsibilities include selecting nuclear components and evaluating whether the specific component meets the requirement, verifying billing materials, demonstrating functional usage of nuclear components, testing nuclear plant design, and developing nuclear packages.

The response from the nuclear industry to such problems would have been to invent yet another nuclear plant design complete with promises of greater safety and lower cost.

Already by the early 1970s, U.S. nuclear plant operators were seeking to standardize nuclear plant design to reduce the time and cost of licensing and construction.

He's been ramping up his own commitments since then, and pledged last year to double his investments (to $ 2 billion) on a host of energy frontiers in the next five years — from new battery and solar technologies to a safer nuclear plant design to tethered, high - flying wind turbines that might harness the power of the jet stream.

And for the first time, 20 governments and a passel of billionaires led by Bill Gates announced plans to ramp up long - lagging investments in basic research and development on clean energy — like advancing cheap, extensive battery storage to maximize the potential of solar power, safer nuclear plant designs and even technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

That means building the access roads, levelling the ground, preparing for the concrete foundations and a host of other activities, independent of choosing the one or more international partners who are offering their nuclear plant designs.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Entergy is objecting to the Cuomo administration's investigation of the Indian Point nuclear facility, saying it could violate federal law and amounts to a political witch hunt designed to make Westchester plant look unsafe.

Westinghouse said in a statement Friday that it was «confident in the AP1000 design and its passive safety features, as it is one of the most studied, reviewed and analyzed nuclear power plant designs in the history of the commercial nuclear power industry.»

Research suggests the risks posed to the nation's nuclear reactors may have been underestimated and therefore could be worse than the power plants were designed to withstand

The program was designed to attack and sabotage control systems used in manufacturing facilities, power grids, pipelines, and nuclear plants.

Our national energy policy should also support the standardization of nuclear power plant design, an idea that Energy Secretary Steven Chu has recently endorsed (see «Micro Nukes,» page 38).

The competing SFR design banks on a novel fission concept: bombarding uranium atoms with neutrons of much higher energy than those used in a traditional nuclear plant.

The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104 nuclear power plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident.

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.

This week, EDF Energy took offline three of its nuclear reactors at its Heysham 1 and Hartlepool plants in Britain for inspection which are both 31 years old, after a crack was discovered on a boiler spine of another Heysham 1 reactor with a similar boiler design, which had already been taken offline in June.

Leaks, burst cooling pipes, faulty controls, misplaced fuel rods and engineers» warnings about design flaws have done little to slow down approvals for continued operation of the nation's aging nuclear plants

Abagyan told New Scientist that Russia will let its 12 first - generation nuclear plants run for their «design lives» of thirty years.

Technical obstacles to building new nuclear plants include addressing licensing, design certification and first - of - a kind engineering.

Although regulations for the design of new nuclear power plants include safety features intended to avoid disasters, nuclear power will always be vulnerable to those highly unlikely occurrences that have big repercussions.

In contrast, a conventional nuclear plant requires several years of customized design and construction, and at the end of its life several years more are needed to dismantle it and decontaminate the massive site around it.

The cutting - edge, 1,600 - megawatt nuclear power plant, Olkiluoto 3, which its French maker Areva boasted as the most advanced safety design of the time, is still under construction today.

The knowledge gained from such research could inform the design, selection, and improvement of adsorbent materials and membranes for capturing gases such as radioactive krypton and xenon generated by nuclear power plants.

The world's top specialists are competing to design a robot that can carry out emergency - response duties in disaster situations that are often too dangerous for humans, such as last year's nuclear accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

In 1999 the Blayais nuclear power plant on the Gironde estuary in France flooded due to a high tide and strong winds that exceeded anything it was designed to withstand.

All nuclear power plants are designed to withstand a certain level of flooding based on historical data, but these figures do not take climate change into account.

The government, said Major, welcomes steps by Central and Eastern European countries to adopt energy strategies which will help them to press ahead with early closure of the older, higher - risk Soviet - designed nuclear power plants like those at Bohunice.

As a result, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate also asked the company to assess the integrity of the pressure vessels in the other four Magnox plants, even though Trawsfynydd's vessels receive higher neutron doses than the other reactors because of differences in design.

The committee found that current approaches for regulating nuclear plant safety, which have been based traditionally on deterministic concepts such as the design - basis accident, are clearly inadequate for preventing core - melt accidents and mitigating their consequences.

For instance, during hurricane Francis in 2004 doors designed to protect safety equipment from flying debris at the St Lucie nuclear power plant in Florida were left open.

· The U.S. nuclear industry and USNRC should strengthen their capabilities for assessing risks from events that could challenge the design of nuclear plant structures and components and lead to a loss of critical safety functions.

That claim is questioned in the new report, which suggests it was the quake that triggered the nuclear disaster — the Fukushima - Daiichi plant lacked an adequate anti-quake design.

But neither the South Texas facility nor the applications for new reactors at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland and the Shearon Harris nuclear plant outside Raleigh, N.C., have completed the NRC's long design safety and feasibility evaluation, which could take years to complete.

In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).

A second transformative design innovation leverages gravity combined with conduction heat transfer ̶ two unfailingly reliable phenomena in nature — to facilitate all necessary heat removal from the plant's nuclear fuel, and subsequent expulsion of heat to the atmosphere.

Researchers from California State University, Long Beach and Berkeley Lab have launched «Kelp Watch 2014,» a scientific campaign designed to determine the extent of radioactive contamination of the state's kelp forest from Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.

We are pleased to announce that Holtec's engineers have succeeded in designing SMR - 160 into a «walk - away» safe nuclear power plant, which means that if a calamity were to strike — similar to the tsunami that devastated Fukushima ̶ the plant will passively (without human intervention) switch to and remain in a safe shutdown and cooled configuration for an unlimited period.

A total of eight GNF3 lead - use assemblies have already been loaded into two nuclear plants - four each at Entergy's River Bend and Exelon's LaSalle - and are operating as designed, according to GNF.

In designing the NuScale Power ModuleTM and power plant, NuScale has achieved a paradigm shift in the level of safety of a nuclear power plant facility.

NAC is well positioned to not only support the storage initiative, but also to support the shipments of the used fuel from nuclear plant sites with its dual purpose solution design, transportation cask availability, and transportation experience.

The NuScale SMR design allows for an EPZ that is significantly smaller than conventional nuclear plants.

Mr. Fertel has almost 50 years of experience working with the electric utility industry on issues related to designing, siting, licensing and managing both fossil and nuclear plants.

Scott Burnell, public affairs officer at the NRC, said NuScale's application is the first to propose a nuclear power plant designed with several small reactors instead of one large one.

During the 1980's, he was significantly involved in management and operational reviews and in designing performance improvement plans for restarting «troubled» nuclear power plants that had to demonstrate improvements to the Nuclear Regulatory Commnuclear power plants that had to demonstrate improvements to the Nuclear Regulatory CommNuclear Regulatory Commission.

Rolls - Royce is strongly placed to deliver the design and, together with a consortium of UK companies, the supply of almost all aspects of a new nuclear SMR plant, re-establishing the UK supply chain to a position of global recognition.

Q24: What is Holtec's experience in designing gravity - driven systems for nuclear plants?

Response: Unlike currently operating nuclear reactors, SMR - 160 has been designed to store the used fuel produced over the entire operating lifetime of the plant in subterranean cavities (formally known as Holtec's HI - STORM UMAX system licensed by the USNRC), occupying a small parcel of land in the plant's backyard.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is currently involved in pre-licensing vendor design reviews - an optional service to assess of a nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 3Nuclear Safety Commission is currently involved in pre-licensing vendor design reviews - an optional service to assess of a nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 3nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 300 MWe.

Response: In designing SMR - 160, Holtec has carefully analyzed operating plant data from the nuclear power industry in order to identify the underlying reasons for current O&M costs.