Sentences with phrase «nuclear reactor fleet»

Plagued by cost overruns, construction delays, and a dearth of private investment interest, the world's nuclear reactor fleet is aging quickly as new reactor connections struggle to keep up with retirements.

An Argonne National Laboratory scientist recently estimated that the cost premium for reprocessing spent fuel would range from 0.4 to 0.6 cents per kilowatt - hour — corresponding to an extra $ 3 to $ 4.5 billion per year for the current U.S. nuclear reactor fleet.

Virtually the entire U.S. nuclear reactor fleet participated in this program by using fuel fabricated with low enriched uranium from the Megatons to Megawatts program.

Such «mixed oxide» fuel has not proved popular in the broader nuclear reactor fleet, although France continues to pursue it, with the U.S. soon to follow.

Not exact matches

The Defence Secretary will announce the ordering of nuclear reactors for a new class of submarines to replace the current Vanguard fleet, which carries Trident at present.

And while Germany is phasing out nuclear power, five new reactors are under construction in the U.S., adding to its existing fleet of 99 commercial reactors.

The proposed Calvert Cliffs 3 reactor was conceived as a joint venture between Constellation and EDF, France's government - backed utility and nuclear fleet operator.

With nuclear safety in the spotlight since the 2011 reactor meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant - which in turn prompted Germany to call time on its entire nuclear fleet - operators can take no chances with their elderly plants, but the outages get longer and more difficult.

The report's conclusions, released in a preview last year, are that light water reactors, the mainstay of the U.S. fleet, will remain the «preferred option» for U.S. nuclear plants for decades.

For example, for the U.S. to derive one quarter of its total energy supply from nuclear would require building roughly 1,000 new reactors (both to replace old ones and expand the fleet).

Yet, even if every planned reactor in China was to be built, the country would still rely on burning coal for more than 50 percent of its electric power — and the Chinese nuclear reactors would provide at best roughly the same amount of energy to the developing nation as does the existing U.S. fleet.

The U.S. — and the world — is gearing up to build a potentially massive fleet of new nuclear reactors, in part to fight climate change.

Even with a fleet of such fast reactors, nations would nonetheless require an ultimate home for radioactive waste, one reason that a 2010 M.I.T. report on spent nuclear fuel dismissed such fast reactors.

Russia is upgrading its nuclear program, India plans to expand its nuclear submarine fleet, and Pakistan has reportedly started operating a third plutonium reactor, Squassoni said.

«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.»

Breakthrough explains that the reactors are inherently safer and operate more efficiently than the fleet of inferior conventional reactors that occupy the world's nuclear power landscape today.

Some of the more - advanced reactors now being built are seeing cost overruns and schedule delays of a year or more, so the nuclear fleet in 2020 may be even further from the official goal.

C2ES recommends policy solutions that offer the greatest promise to support the existing fleet and lay the groundwork for advanced nuclear reactors, including:

Here in the UK we are reaping the nuclear industry's harvest as our government plans a whole new fleet of nuclear reactors at the expense of technologies that have the capacity to support us in our fight against climate change.

The U.S. — and the world — is gearing up to build a potentially massive fleet of new nuclear reactors, in part to fight climate change.

Below, we've estimated the impact on overall current carbon emissions if Japan were to completely phase out production of electricity from its current fleet of nuclear reactors.