Sentences with phrase «of fast reactors»

However, the government also said the country's development of fast reactors would continue.

For the very long term, recycling the fuel of fast reactors would be so efficient that currently available uranium supplies could last indefinitely.

If we were to begin today, the first of the fast reactors might come online in about 15 years.

One attractive feature of fast reactors is that they can produce more fuel than they consume, avoiding the issue of the limited supplies of the uranium used in conventional nuclear reactors.

From the beginning of nuclear power, we knew the benefits of fast reactors.

This also explains why initial enrichment of fast reactors has to be higher than comparable thermal reactors.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and Southern Nuclear are to collaborate on the development and licensing of fast reactors including GEH's Prism sodium - cooled fast reactor, the companies announced yesterday.

Last October, GEH and Southern Nuclear signed an MoU to collaborate on the development and licensing of fast reactors including GEH's Prism.

The end of the fast reactor programme will also leave the British government and the nuclear industry with the problem of how to deal with its plutonium stockpile.

He said that the government had reviewed its position and concluded that the funding of research and development on the fast reactor at Dounreay was not a priority beyond March 1993, as there was agreement that commercial deployment of the fast reactor would not be justified until well into the next century.

«The possibility of cooperative work with Japan in the area of fast reactors is something that is attractive to us precisely because they have Monju,» Daniel Poneman, the U.S. deputy secretary of energy, said at a press conference today.

Colin Gregory, director of the fast reactor research programme at Dounreay, says that the EFR will inevitably take longer to construct and cost more without more time for research at Dounreay.

An unlikely alliance between Japan and Russia is emerging as the last refuge of the fast reactor now that Western Europe and the US have effectively abandoned the technology.

This makes the nuclear waste coming out of fast reactors decay to natural radiation levels much faster than traditional nuclear waste.

However, it is very important for Japan - a resource - poor country committed to being a global leader in science and technology - to continue the technological development of fast reactors in anticipation of the future.»

The government noted Japan's basic energy policy - decided by the Cabinet in April 2014 - aims to promote the nuclear fuel cycle, including the promotion of fast reactor development.

And nuclear power is just as sustainable as any other power source — even if we only use conventional nuclear fast reactor designs, there is enough uranium in the oceans and on land (recoverable at prices that allow the fuel costs of fast reactors to remain the same as today — which is trivial) to last for 5 billlion years, the expected time remaining fo our sun.

Under previously announced plans, deployment of PWRs is expected to level off at 200 GWe by around 2040, with the use of fast reactors progressively increasing from 2020 to at least 200 GWe by 2050 and 1400 GWe by 2100.

A new policy was also announced for Japan's development of fast reactors.