Sentences with phrase «nuclear research reactor»

RIAR operates six nuclear research reactors, the Europe's biggest reactor materials testing complex for PIE of the core components, fuel cycle R&D facilities, radiochemical complex and radioactive waste management facilities.

Not exact matches

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.

Some people state that Ghana maintains several research reactors ready on standby for the processing of highly enriched uranium (HEU) into tactical nuclear weapons (TNW).

And German nuclear power began with research reactors in online in 1969.

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.

In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators.

Research suggests the risks posed to the nation's nuclear reactors may have been underestimated and therefore could be worse than the power plants were designed to withstand

In its efforts to develop safer, cheaper, and more efficient nuclear reactors, the Idaho National Laboratory has researched half a dozen next - generation reactor designs; these two (the sodium - cooled fast reactor and the very - high - temperature reactor) are the most promising.

Other nuclear scientists are waiting to see how South Korea's new energy policy, due by the end of the year, might affect research, including work on fusion reactors.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

Buoyed by an allocation of $ 1.25 billion in funding for reactor research from the 2005 Energy Policy Act, INL scientists are working to improve safety, boost efficiency, minimize waste, and decrease cost in a new generation of nuclear reactors.

To try to confirm the location and condition of the melted fuel, the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning, set up by TEPCO and other entities, has been probing the reactors» innards with muons.

A few days after the nuclear crisis began to unfold at the Fukushima power station in Japan, Singh, who also serves as minister in charge for atomic energy, ordered a safety review of all 20 nuclear power plants and a half dozen research reactors owned and operated by the government.

Vancko estimates that this country will add four new reactors to its current stable of 104 in the next decade, and research into the safer small modular reactors, sometimes known as micronukes, may lead to a whole new model for the nuclear industry.

Then it fell, leaving inadequate controls over the reactors, the waste, and the research institutes that propelled the nuclear machine.

Funding for the nuclear R&D sector is much lower than many international competitors and negligible for research into future generations of fission reactors.»

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials, Energy Department counterparts, utility executives and research leaders are scheduled to meet in February for a «tabletop» conference on the technical and regulatory issues that could confront a new wave of relicensing applications by reactor owners.

DOE is supporting research into extended reactor life, as are nuclear plant operators through the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), an industry research and development organresearch into extended reactor life, as are nuclear plant operators through the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), an industry research and development organResearch Institute (EPRI), an industry research and development organresearch and development organization.

«Utilities today see no problem in swapping out steam generators or reactor cooling pumps,» said Brian Sheron, director of NRC's Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.

Investing in advanced fuels research is critical to developing a new nuclear reactor technology.

Canada's Chalk River complex contains the 60 - year - old National Research Universal reactor, the world's oldest operating nuclear reactor.

Officially called National Research Universal (NRU) reactor, the Chalk River reactor began its life in 1957 and in short order became the centerpiece of Canada's nuclear research entResearch Universal (NRU) reactor, the Chalk River reactor began its life in 1957 and in short order became the centerpiece of Canada's nuclear research entresearch enterprise.

The IAEA took possession of the fuel in Iraq's two research reactors in mid-1991, after the UN inspected Iraqi nuclear facilities in the aftermath of the Gulf War.

In Paris yesterday, researchers from the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK - CEN) in Mol, the French National Research Council (CNRS), and France's Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) reported that they had successfully operated a research reactor called Guinevere by boosting its nuclear reactions with an externally produced beam of neNuclear Research Centre (SCK - CEN) in Mol, the French National Research Council (CNRS), and France's Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) reported that they had successfully operated a research reactor called Guinevere by boosting its nuclear reactions with an externally produced beam of nResearch Centre (SCK - CEN) in Mol, the French National Research Council (CNRS), and France's Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) reported that they had successfully operated a research reactor called Guinevere by boosting its nuclear reactions with an externally produced beam of nResearch Council (CNRS), and France's Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) reported that they had successfully operated a research reactor called Guinevere by boosting its nuclear reactions with an externally produced beam of nresearch reactor called Guinevere by boosting its nuclear reactions with an externally produced beam of nenuclear reactions with an externally produced beam of neutrons.

Do you think that work on reactor safety will lead to more transparency in Chinese nuclear research?

Osborne announced a doubling of investment in energy research, including # 250 million for small modular reactor development and other nuclear R&D.

The plan boosts funding, however, for the Generation IV program that supports multinational research and development for next - generation reactors and also would increase funding for fuel - cycle research and development within DoE's nuclear energy office.

Simulating nuclear reactors or the electrical grid, for example, are research efforts done at DOE's energy research offices.

Soon after, the German atomic effort turned from bomb making to nuclear - reactor design, leading some historians to believe that Heisenberg helped maneuver the research toward more peaceful purposes.

As the international ITER project to develop an experimental nuclear fusion reactor eats into research budgets around the world, an advisory panel to the US Department of Energy recommends mothballing at least one of three major experiments and focusing on research necessary to bring ITER online.

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.

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

Joint projects with Russian nuclear scientists began to ebb soon after President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, and reached a nadir last October when Russia suspended an agreement with the United States on nuclear R&D cooperation and terminated another on retooling Russian research reactors to no longer run on weapons - grade uranium fuel.

Aluminum is currently used in not only research reactor components but also nuclear batteries and spacecraft, and it has been proposed as material for storage containers for nuclear waste.

So we're doubling our spending on energy research with a major commitment to small modular nuclear reactors.

Because this is not the case, our research reactor does not have a reactor pressure vessel as nuclear power plants do.

The meetings are meant to prepare for next year's closure of Canada's National Research Universal nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ont.

Our research reactor BER II in Berlin - Wannsee can not be compared with a nuclear power plant.

German engineers from the Max Planck Institute successfully activated the experimental nuclear fusion reactor used in the research last December and successfully managed to suspend plasma for the first time.

«As one of the U.K.'s leading research universities, we are pleased that GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has looked to The University of Manchester's Dalton Nuclear Institute to provide expert knowledge and experience to the potential U.K. application of a PRISM reactor... PRISM has the potential to offer an attractive solution to the disposition of civil plutonium and we look forward to working with GEH as they progress with their proposals to deploy PRISM in the U.K.»

The research reactor is not used for developing or sampling nuclear power technology.

The ZED - 2 Reactor Safety & Instrumentation School will introduce Canada's next - generation of nuclear engineers and scientists to the facilities, techniques, and current areas of research in experimental reactor physics, reactor safety, and nuclear instrumentation.

The school will be structured around lectures delivered by members of CNL's research team and external experts in the mornings, followed by demonstrations and practical sessions in the afternoons during which students will spend time at the Zero Energy Deuterium (ZED - 2) reactor, as well as several other nuclear facilities located on the campus.

Another product, the atomic bomb, was constructed by way of nuclear reactors that could, in peace time, provide an abundant supply of radioactive isotopes, which are now of great value not only in biophysical research but also in biochemistry and medicine.

To this end, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between General Electric and Hitachi, is researching a reactor design which would use recycled spent nuclear fuel instead of creating neNuclear Energy, a joint venture between General Electric and Hitachi, is researching a reactor design which would use recycled spent nuclear fuel instead of creating nenuclear fuel instead of creating new fuel.

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.

Twenty - two responses came from reactor developers; 27 from companies in the nuclear supply chain; five from utilities and other endusers; 12 from academic / research institutions or other agencies; and 14 from communities and individual contributors.

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 operesearch 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 opeResearch Universal (NRU) reactor closes down on 31 March 2018 after 60 years of operations.

This HEU is the result of nuclear fuel use at Chalk River Laboratories for CNL's research reactors, the NRX and NRU, and for the production of medical isotopes through the irradiation of HEU targets in the NRU.