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
The Federal
Nuclear Waste Policy Act has mandated that deep - mine disposal of high - level radioactive effluent and spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors commence by 1998, but states with proposed geological sites are screamin
Nuclear Waste Policy Act has mandated that deep - mine disposal of high - level radioactive effluent and spent fuel rods from
nuclear reactors commence by 1998, but states with proposed geological sites are screamin
nuclear reactors commence by 1998, but states with proposed geological
sites are screaming foul.
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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site of the first
nuclear reactor, marked by a mushroom - shaped bronze by Henry Moore.
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 ConnecticutÃs 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.»