Sentences with phrase «nuclear reactor components»

And technological advances mean that new nuclear reactor components can increasingly be mass - manufactured in factories and shipped around the world for re-assembly on - site.

Experimental data will allow them to verify the accuracy of computer models that can predict how nuclear reactor components corrode and crack during long - time service.

Results: Important pressurized water nuclear reactor components are being made from a nickel - base alloy that contains twice the amount of chromium as the material previously used.

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WASHINGTON (AP)-- A subsidiary of General Electric has agreed to pay $ 2.7 million to resolve claims its employees made false statements to the U.S. Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission about a reactor component.

Thermal fluids are used to alleviate wear on components and tools and for machining operations like stamping and drilling, medical therapy and diagnosis, biopharmaceuticals, air conditioning, fuel cells, power transmission systems, solar cells, micro - and nanoelectronic mechanical systems and cooling systems for everything from engines to nuclear reactors.

During a nuclear meltdown, uranium dioxide fuel, fuel rod components and even the reactor become superheated — as much as 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit — and melt together to form corium, which can eat through containment systems.

Aluminum is currently used in not only research reactor components but also nuclear batteries and spacecraft, and it has been proposed as material for storage containers for nuclear waste.

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories is a leader in sciences that are foundational to reactor safety — including the ability to predict the lifetimes of critical components used in nuclear power stations around the world, especially those in CANDU reNuclear Laboratories is a leader in sciences that are foundational to reactor safety — including the ability to predict the lifetimes of critical components used in nuclear power stations around the world, especially those in CANDU renuclear power stations around the world, especially those in CANDU reactors.

This work might ultimately lead to longer - lasting components and safer nuclear reactors.

These thermal neutron reactors typically use uranium - 235 as the main component in the nuclear fuel.

RIAR operates six nuclear research reactors, the Europe's biggest reactor materials testing complex for PIE of the core components, fuel cycle R&D facilities, radiochemical complex and radioactive waste management facilities.

More than 90 % of this unit's profit comes from critical nuclear components such as: core barrels, reactor vessels, closure heads, steam generators, and pressurizers.

Consortium run nuclear sites also oversee the production of plutonium pits, monitor the aging of nuclear weapons, manage the production of critical nuclear components like Tritium — which helps boost the yield in all nuclear weapons and initiate the fission stage in hydrogen bombs — and operate test reactors.

Westinghouse, General Electric and other companies are major designers and suppliers of components for nuclear reactors.

I was trying to estimate the mining footprints of solar and nuclear, and came up with some very tentative rough estimates that ore input for solar energy might have an energy density (per unit mass) ~ 5 to 80 times coal, while nuclear (convential US fuel cycle) may be ~ 20 times coal — on the solar side, this doesn't include some balance of system components, and on the nuclear side, it only includes the U, but on the solar side, the actual energy density could get much higher with recycling of the same material into multiple successive generations of solar energy devices, and on the nuclear side, breeder reactors.

On Thursday, the French company Areva, the world's largest builder of nuclear reactors, and Northrop Grumman announced an investment of more than $ 360 million at a shipyard in Newport News, Va., to build components for seven proposed American reactors, and more for export.

«Of course, not only does China want to replace its old coal fleet with new nuclear reactors, it wants to become the leading exporter of nuclear technology as well, including heavy components in the supply chain where the real global bottleneck is.»

The United States and several other nations are pursuing small modular nuclear reactors as vital components in their energy futures, Issues reported in summer 2011.

I would say a climate model will be more complex because a decent nuclear reactor will be comprised of easily unit - testable components whereas the climate comprises too many closely coupled phenomena with too complex a relationship.

Troy Rouse 303 Clark St. Columbia, Al 36319 [phone] Professional Summary Experience includes over 14 years in the nuclear industry, encompassing nuclear construction, maintenance, and major component replacement projects, including steam generator, reactor head and pressurizer replacement.

Hartford is also home to an extensive list of major high - tech manufacturing firms producing such complex products as aircraft engines, nuclear reactors, space suits and missile components.