Sentences with phrase «nuclear reactor site»

The NRC analysis found that a fire in a spent - fuel pool at an average nuclear reactor site would cause $ 125 billion in damages, while expedited transfer of spent fuel to dry casks could reduce radioactive releases from pool fires by 99 percent.

Not exact matches

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No, the best argument is made by considering what we're doing currently with our programme to create 16gw of new nuclear power — about 10 reactors, on five or six sites — by 2025.

SCRIBA, N.Y. - If Entergy shuts down the FitzPatrick nuclear power plant as planned, the reactor could sit dormant for 50 years before its owner begins to tear it down and clean up the site.

But the computer modeling only analyzed catastrophic failure at one reactor at each of these nuclear power plants, despite the fact that Peach Bottom and Surry each have two reactors on site.

Last year managers agreed to a road map for decommissioning the site over the next 30 to 40 years that calls for removing melted nuclear fuel masses and demolishing the plant's four reactor halls at a cost that could top $ 9 billion.

With no permanent waste repository in sight, the nuclear industry is storing spent fuel at reactor sites.

It also assumes that 45 new nuclear power plants could be built by 2030, using existing reactor sites, adding 64 gigawatts of new capacity.

The agency says the Hanford site in southeastern Washington, which manufactured more than 20 million pieces of uranium metal fuel for nine nuclear reactors near the Columbia River, is its biggest cleanup challenge.

The chemical tests often involve dedicated analytical laboratories, even nuclear reactors, and take place months or years after an archaeological site has been excavated.

But is it necessary for every aspect of nuclear power to be re-examined by a cascade of public inquiries every time the nuclear industry proposes to build a reactor, especially when it is virtually identical to its predecessor and on a site which has already been licensed?

The problem of spent fuel storage Nuclear reactor operators must store spent fuel removed from reactor cores for several years at least, in large pools at reactor sites until the remaining heat from the uranium fuel cools sufficiently.

The future of the global effort to build a workable nuclear fusion reactor hangs in the balance after officials failed last week to choose between proposed sites in France and Japan.

Thirty years after Chernobyl's nuclear reactor No. 4 exploded, the building built around the site has reached the end of its expected life span.

Across the East China Sea, west of Japan and its ongoing crisis, sits the growing Qinshan nuclear power plant, where four new pressurized - water reactors are under construction in addition to the five already operating on - site.

Chelyabinsk was the site of a massive explosion in 1957, and is the probable destination of fuel taken by the UN from nuclear reactors in Iraq (This Week, 19 June).

Areva's third - generation nuclear reactor, EPR, is now under construction at four sites: two in China, one in France and one in Finland.

The Chalk River site is the home of the remaining operating nuclear reactor, nuclear operations to support medical isotope production, a diverse science and technology group, and an organization focused on environmental remediation and decommissioning.

SMR - 160's footprint is minuscule compared to operating nuclear reactors; occupying a mere 6 acres of land for a two unit site and 4.5 acres for a single unit installation.

An independent body, the Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurances Board, will look at the potential clean - up costs - including any impact on electricity bills - and a review of potential sites for new reactors will report next year.

Providing a licensed nuclear site on which several nuclear reactors have been built and operated.

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has invited small modular reactor project proponents to evaluate the construction and operation of a demonstration SMR project at a site it manages.

Terrestrial Energy has begun a feasibility study for the siting of the first commercial Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories» (CNL) Chalk River site, with a further vision of creating a technology hub at CNL to support the commercialisation of small modular reactors (SMR).

The emergency plans developed by school systems that have had to face the possibility — however remote — that they might be enveloped in a communitywide nuclear crisis, vary from locality to locality depending principally upon the site of the reactor and the geography of the community.

Beyond Idaho, I cruised into Washington, visiting Spokane and the Coulee dam, following the highways through more spectacular terrain down to the Hanford Reach National Monument, site of a secret nuclear reactor built during World War 2.

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.

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Two nuclear reactors have been in operation at the site for over 40 years, with two more scheduled to be added, starting next year.

In it, he called for international intervention before the Tokyo Electric Power Company began to move fuel rods from the spent fuel pool for reactor unit 4 and urged the four climate scientists who recently called for a big push to advance safer nuclear power plant designs to go to the site.

While the cost of building nuclear plants rose when it switched designs, construction costs fell when it built the same reactor on the same site using the same team.

Government can place two or three nuclear reactors on each power station site, depending on the type and configuration it chooses.

Given the nuclear solution requires new reactor designs yet to be built even for demonstration and test purposes, and then the complexities of siting nuclear power plants near the calling water they need while defending them against flood waters makes construction of tested designs take a decade.

That's $ 15 - $ 20 million per nuclear plant site per year (about $ 10 million per reactor).

Studies show that standardized designs, multiple reactors on one site, and a vertically integrated builder were the keys to declines in the cost of building nuclear power plants in France and Korea.

Energy Alberta Corporation (Energy Alberta) has filed an application for a site preparation license for two twin - unit ACR - 1000 CANDU nuclear reactors to provide power for the oil sands operations in Alberta.

The Oarai site houses several experimental nuclear reactors as well as an environmental reactivity monitoring center.

They'll be drilling core samples, documenting geologic, hydrologic, and seismic conditions — the initial step in plans to site the world's first commercial small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) here.

The U.S. nuclear industry has long argued that new reactors are prohibitively expensive because of an overly burdensome site selection and permitting process, which they say unnecessarily drives up costs.

-- as compared to a nuclear reactor which also has a «Life expectancy of 20 — 25 years and then costs $ 50,000,000,000.00 to refurbish for another 15 — 20 (refurbished reactors have a shorter life before they have to be refurbished again or de-commissioned at which time the site has become so contaminated that it's un-usable for up to 25,000 years because that's the 1/2 half - life for waste / spent uranium to break down, i.e. if you have 1 lb of spent uranium after 25,000 years you have 1/2 lb.

Since the 1980s, nuclear waste from the reactor has been buried in the Namaqualand desert, home to the indigenous Nama people, who were not consulted about the location of the nuclear waste site.

Last fall, the group told lawmakers that a nuclear waste policy should focus on a consent - based approach, rather than one focused on Yucca Mountain, that is «technically sound» and requires that SNF is managed safely and securely at reactor sites until a repository becomes available.

For example, in order for wind energy in Connecticut (assuming enough suitable sites could be located, and that transmission facilities would be available) to produce the same power produced by Connecticutís two nuclear reactors (located on less than 1 square mile) it is estimated that windmills would cover 700 to 1,600 square miles or approximately 13 to 31 % of the state of Connecticut.

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.

Two coal - fired power generators will remain in operation at the Citrus County site, as will a nuclear reactor.

This ruling allows regulators to «avoid careful consideration of serious environmental and human health impacts associated with a plan to build new nuclear reactors at the Darlington site on Lake Ontario — including the consequences of a major nuclear accident — during the project's environmental assessment.»