Sentences with phrase «nuclear reactor types»

It makes no sense to regulate jet planes the same way we do propeller planes and yet that is precisely how the federal government treats new nuclear reactor types.

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General Atomics has received two awards from the U.S. Department of Energy totaling more than $ 3.26 million to continue the San Diego - based company's work on developing new types of fuel for advanced nuclear reactors.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

While it's true that, unlike other types of power plants, nuclear reactors do not emit carbon dioxide (C02), the life cycle of generating nuclear power — from mining to refining to transportation to storage — requires an enormous amount of energy.

Unlike reactors of the Chernobyl type, the VHTR has a negative temperature coefficient, meaning that as the core temperature rises, nuclear reactions inside naturally begin to slow down.

That means that the rest of the world — particularly China, which is building almost every type of reactor on offer, and Russia — may well inherit the promise and peril of nuclear power, whether small or large.

Despite the severity of the accident at the Fukushima I plant, nuclear reactor designers don't expect the same type of backlash against the nuclear industry as occurred a generation ago after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

The appeal of a fourth kind of neutrino is that it would help bridge a gap in theory that predicts that some neutrinos from a beam of one type of neutrino emanating from a given source — be it a nuclear reactor, the sun or the atmosphere — would change from one kind of neutrino to another as they travel to a distant detector.

On Earth, this radiation shows up in the reactor pools of certain types of nuclear power plants, sparked by high - speed atomic fragments that go shooting through the water.

Lithuania has a 2500 - megawatt nuclear power plant at Ignalina with RBMK graphite / water reactors of the type which exploded at Chernobyl and caused a scare last month at Sosnovy Bor, near St Petersburg (This Week, 28 March).

Then the task force followed with a dozen major recommendations, some of which would order nuclear plant operators to strengthen defenses against extreme flooding or earthquakes when necessary and to harden vents that would carry away explosive hydrogen gas from damaged reactor cores in the two types of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Patrick Jaffke, a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and co-author of the new proposal, suggests a small version that could be placed close to a reactor to determine the type of nuclear fuel within by analyzing the activity of antineutrinos.

Due east along Guangdong's coastline, one of the region's most sophisticated technological projects, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Complex, is also the stage for a cutting - edge experiment in high - energy physics: measuring the proportion of electron antineutrinos from the nuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed throughNuclear Power Complex, is also the stage for a cutting - edge experiment in high - energy physics: measuring the proportion of electron antineutrinos from the nuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed throughnuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed through space.

HFIR has been a key contributor to four decades of research into materials for use in all types of nuclear reactors.

The last time NASA tested a fission reactor was during the 1960s» Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power, or SNAP, program, which developed two types of nuclear power sNuclear Auxiliary Power, or SNAP, program, which developed two types of nuclear power snuclear power systems.

In addition we have provided training on a broad range of topics including introduction to nuclear fission, types of reactors, radiation protection, safeguards, regulations and nuclear safety culture.

Fortunately, we can put ionizing radiation (nuclear reactor and weapon - type) aside; as it is rarely confronted.

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

They agree with me in such statements as «'' A critical factor for the future of an expanded nuclear power industry is the choice of the fuel cycle — what type of fuel is used, what types of reactors «burn» the fuel, and the method of disposal of the spent fuel.

There are many nuclear fuel options: thorium, unenriched uranium (e.g. in heavy water reactors), enriched uranium in many different types of reactors, depleted uranium, «spent fuel» / used fuel» / «nuclear waste».

In their new report, How to Make Nuclear Cheap, Breakthrough notes that a number of alternative reactor types - the sort that regular SmartPlanet readers will recognize - augur affordable nuclearNuclear Cheap, Breakthrough notes that a number of alternative reactor types - the sort that regular SmartPlanet readers will recognize - augur affordable nuclearnuclear power.

There are various types of nuclear fission reactors.

After several decades of laboratory testing, these type of fuels are set to be loaded into a U.S. civilian nuclear reactor in 2018, but there is no reason they could not be loaded into civilian reactors this fall — something that would require a modest investment by DOE of well - under $ 500 million.

But «off - the - shelf builds» are pure vapourware: every nuclear enthusiast has their own pet type of reactor — «4th generation», thorium - fuelled, fast breeder... which will (supposedly) solve the fuelling, safety and proliferation problems of previous designs, but we have no «off - the - shelf builds» for any of them.