Investing in advanced fuels research is critical to developing a new
nuclear reactor technology.
This in - depth study provides
nuclear reactor technology assessments and overall evaluations of the major reactor designs currently available in the world.
Argonne National Laboratory has more than 200 research programs in basic and applied science, including mathematics and computer science, environmental research, materials science, physics, chemistry, energy research, biology and advanced
nuclear reactor technology.
At the beginning of the book, a technical review written by a leading researcher of
nuclear reactor technology explains what happened at the power plant.
The industry is also seeing construction of an advanced
nuclear reactor technology at the twin AP1000 Vogtle expansion units.
Not exact matches
«But I believe
nuclear power is a key
technology with environmental considerations; there's no carbon dioxide emissions and [a
nuclear reactor's plant] might last for 60 to 100 years.»
In addition, the Energy Department has to approve the transfer of
technology related to
nuclear reactors and fuel.
The Government of Canada could build on this momentum to develop an expanded MoU on civilian
nuclear technology co-operation that includes research in pressurized heavy water
reactor technology,
nuclear medicine and other areas discussed by the prime ministers.
BEIJING (AP)-- On a seaside field south of Shanghai, workers are constructing a
nuclear reactor that is the flagship for Beijing's ambition to compete with the United States, France and Russia as an exporter of atomic power
technology.
The Energy Department focuses on the next generation of energy
technologies — from advanced
nuclear reactors to algae biofuels — conducting basic research in its network of 17 national laboratories, and aiding private companies struggling to bring risky new
technologies to market.
That legacy of
nuclear energy development continues today at The University of Manchester in the form of research on new
reactor technologies and related areas, says Denecke.
Understanding the nature of radiation damage in materials is of paramount importance for controlling the safety of
nuclear reactors, using ion implantation in semiconductor
technology, and designing reliable devices in space.
Japan's
nuclear plant crisis with the radioactivity contamination from spent fuel pools is likely to put an overdue spotlight on stalemated U.S. policies for managing
reactor fuel, authors of a Massachusetts Institute of
Technology report on the
nuclear fuel cycle said yesterday.
Separately, small - angle neutron scattering was performed at the OPAL
reactor at the Australian
Nuclear Science and
Technology Organization.
Instead, B&W suggests that the fundamental problem facing the adoption of
nuclear power is not the
technology itself, but the financial risk of committing to a build a big
nuclear reactor.
Tsunami - damaged
nuclear reactors, Twitter - fueled political uprisings, a possible violation of Einsteinian physics — these and other highlights defined this year in science and
technology
In particular, a relatively new form of
nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about
reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of
nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.
The chemistry of protactinium, which is very difficult to study due to it scarcity and complex chemistry, is important for understanding and controlling its behavior for application in
nuclear reactors, as well as for comprehending the overall variable and complex chemistry of the actinide series and transition elements used in everyday
technologies.
While the industry was in deep freeze, they were pressing ahead with one of the most promising emerging
technologies in energy: micro-size
nuclear reactors, fully functional power plants a good deal closer to the size of the test
reactor I'm standing near.
North Korea says it's pulling out of disarmament talks and restarting its
nuclear reactor, after its launch of a rocket that critics said was designed to test its long - range missile
technology drew international outrage.
Meanwhile, opponents of
nuclear technologies are not convinced that small
reactors are an improvement over traditional designs.
All commonly used medical radioisotopes can be produced without using
nuclear reactors or enriching uranium, or can be replaced with other isotopes that can be produced without a fission reaction, or by alternative
technologies.
The greatest objection to the spread of
nuclear technology and power
reactors to developing countries, however, is that it will increase the risks of
nuclear weapons proliferation.
Japan has pursued fast - breeder
technology, through which a
reactor can produce more plutonium than it burns in hopes of cutting or eliminating imports of
nuclear fuel.
But ANP engineers and management were mired in debate over
reactor technologies, how best to transfer
nuclear power to a conventional engine, and the best material to shield the crew from radiation.
The Energy Department continues low - level work on so - called Gen IV
nuclear reactors, fourth - generation
technologies that use altered fuels or produce a more manageable waste stream.
It resides in membrane spaces that evade ready experimental detection, but in a new study, researchers at the Georgia Institute of
Technology and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have illuminated presenilin using a neutron beam produced by the world's most powerful research
nuclear reactor.
Co-founder Mark Massie said building modern
nuclear reactors on first - generation
technology is analogous to building airliners out of the same wood and cloth the Wright brothers used in their prototype (ClimateWire, Dec. 15, 2014).
Commercially, plants using «clean coal»
technology can be more attractive than new
reactors, says the company in its submission to the government's review of the
nuclear industry.
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.
«The
technology with the potential to solve these problems (of climate change, future energy shortfalls and cleaning up
nuclear waste) is the fast
reactor, ideally the integral fast
reactor (IFR)... IFRs, once loaded with
nuclear waste, can, in principle, keep recycling it until only a small fraction remains, producing energy as they do so.»
«With a design that can extract energy from used
nuclear fuel to generate electricity, our Prism advanced
reactor technology is a game - changer,» he said.
The research
reactor is not used for developing or sampling
nuclear power
technology.
The
technology is proven, PRISM's simplified
reactor design will speed construction, and GEH's technical and operational expertise has proven our ability to consistently deliver on time and on budget
nuclear power projects anywhere in the world.
PRISM is a high energy neutron (fast)
reactor which uses a series of proven, safe and mature
technologies to create an innovative solution to dispose of used
nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium.
In April 2015, NuScale launched its NuScale Diverse Energy Platform (NuDEP) highlighting its small modular
reactor technology as the
nuclear «plug - n - play» solution for providing reliable power to diverse applications.
On December 12, 2013, NuScale Power was selected as the winner of the second round of DOE's competitively - bid, cost - sharing program to develop
nuclear small modular
reactor (SMR)
technology.
In August 2013, NuScale announced that Rolls - Royce had joined Fluor Corporation in backing NuScale's bid to commercialize small modular
reactor (SMR)
nuclear technology globally.
In an emergency, unlike today's
reactors, it shuts down without human intervention and without requiring electric power... Hundreds of
nuclear scientists believe this
technology has the ability to generate carbon - free power at a cost per kW less than coal.»
Building on Holtec's vast experience of delivering cutting - edge
technologies to the global
nuclear energy industry over the past 25 years, SMR is committed to delivering to the world a safe, secure, reliable, clean and affordable small modular
nuclear reactor — SMR - 160.
Terrestrial Energy uses a completely different
nuclear technology for its small modular
reactor — molten salt fuel instead of conventional solid fuel.
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 - 3
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 - 3
nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's
reactor technology - for ten small
reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 300 MWe.
Based in Wilmington, North Carolina, GEH is a world - leading provider of advanced
reactor technology and
nuclear services.
«For more than 50 years GE has been at the forefront of energy innovation and
nuclear technology and GE Hitachi's PRISM
reactor offers an attractive solution to tackling the UK's plutonium management challenges while generating clean electricity,» said Mark Elborne, President and CEO of GE UK & Ireland.
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 ARC
Nuclear team brings decades of sodium fast
reactor experience to this collaboration and, by working together, we can accelerate commercialization of this
technology.»
CNL's RFEOI was launched following the release of the
nuclear research and
technology organisation's long - term plan, which set out a vision for the future of Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario after the National Research Universal (NRU)
reactor closes down on 31 March 2018 after 60 years of operations.
PRISM is a high energy neutron (fast)
reactor design which uses a series of proven, safe and mature
technologies to provide an innovative solution to disposition plutonium stockpiles and harness the remaining energy potential of used
nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium.
While there are more than 90 advanced
nuclear technology and small modular reactor designs under various stages of development, GEH and ARC Nuclear view sodium fast reactors as being the most mature advanced reactor technology with decades of real operating experience from more than 20 previous re
nuclear technology and small modular
reactor designs under various stages of development, GEH and ARC
Nuclear view sodium fast reactors as being the most mature advanced reactor technology with decades of real operating experience from more than 20 previous re
Nuclear view sodium fast
reactors as being the most mature advanced
reactor technology with decades of real operating experience from more than 20 previous
reactors.
«ARC
Nuclear has a heritage of sodium fast
reactor experience that includes key senior scientists and engineers from the EBR - II prototype program — technical leaders involved in developing and demonstrating the fast
reactor foundational
technology within the U.S. Department of Energy,» said Don Wolf, Chairman and CEO, ARC
Nuclear.