Sentences with phrase «of new reactor designs»

Pre-application reviews of new reactor designs are expected to identify and address:

The GRSR process reviews the completely - or partially - developed safety cases of new reactor designs that are not yet in the licensing stage.

Don't we want to educate the public about the benefits of new reactor designs?

Not exact matches

New reactor designs offer a generational leap in terms of cost and safety, but proponents have so far struggled to secure the billions of dollars in funding that renewables are getting.

«In the wake of the Fukushima meltdown, the NRC also should suspend all of its licensing decisions on new designs, new reactors or relicense applications until it incorporates the lessons of the Japanese catastrophe into its plans and regulations,» Markey said.

Another AP1000 critic, Jim Warren of NC WARN, was not convinced that Friday's announcement marked a major new challenge to the reactor's design.

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.

This is one of many safety issues currently being investigated by his team at the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation in Bootle, as it considers licensing new, supposedly safer, reactor designs from companies like Japanese - owned Westinghouse Electric and French - owned Areva.

Nuclear with Chinese characteristics China's new nuclear future is a mix of its own and foreign reactor designs.

So people are investing seriously, and there are some designs and perhaps one prototype for trying to use it as a way of monitoring nuclear reactor activity so that international monitors could have a new tool in their hands.

If the license is issued, the first new design reactor in the U.S. in decades would start delivering 1,100 megawatts of power by 2016.

A standard design should slash the cost of new reactors.

South Korea has embarked on the development of a preliminary concept design for a fusion power demonstration reactor in collaboration with the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in New Jersey.

A possible strategy for freeing nuclear power from its current impasse would be built around a new generation of lower - power, centrally fabricated nuclear reactors designed for inherent safety

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 new fuel.

NuScale builds on lessons learned from the existing fleet of commercial power reactors and incorporates those lessons into the fundamental design of the NuScale plant, as well as including several new design innovations to further enhance safety.

Separately, the newer rules from the NRC on advanced reactors standardize the licensing, providing early site approval, certification of plant designs by rule (avoiding the lengthy public hearings for each plant), and simultaneous issuances of both a construction permit and an operating license (a «one - stop licensing called «combined licenses».)

One is found in a new generation of meltdown proof nuclear like some of the pebble - bed reactor designs.

To my mind, the Fukushima failure also builds the case for the kind of push under way in China, which is moving forward with construction of the first two of a new generation of nuclear reactors — cooled by helium, not water, and designed in a way that can not produce a meltdown of the fuel.

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.

Nuclear defenders are calling for keeping things in perspective — fossil fuels, they point out, have many more costs and risks associated with them than nuclear power; and newer generation reactor designs are far safer than those built in Japan many decades ago (a number of US plants from the same era have the same or similar designs).

Costs of solar, wind and biofuels are decreasing (construction of new nuclear reactors of new designs is progressing.)

What's needed now is a new national commitment to the development, testing, demonstration, and early stage commercialization of a broad range of new nuclear technologies — from much smaller light - water reactors to next generation ones — in search of a few designs that can be mass produced and deployed at a significantly lower cost than current designs.

B&W is also actively marketing a new reactor design of its own - the 180 MWe mPower.

Now, a group of scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) supported by the Aerosol and Particle Technology Laboratory of CPERI / CERTH Greece have built and tested a new solar reactor design that includes storage so it can provide round - the - clock heat like the current fossil - fired method, but without the emissions.

Greenpeace had told them that the EPR and AP1000 reactor designs were untried and untested anywhere in the world; and that the vendors and operators of the potential new reactors had not yet presented firm plans for the longer - term storage of spent fuel.

Friends of the Earth's nuclear campaign works to reduce risks for people and the environment by supporting efforts to close existing nuclear reactors and fighting proposals to design and build new reactors that use federal funds to underwrite such initiatives.

The new FOA covers three funding pathways: First - of - a-Kind (FOAK) Nuclear Demonstration Readiness Project pathway, intended to address major advanced reactor design development projects or complex technology advancements for existing plants which have significant technical and licensing risk, and have the potential to be deployed by the mid-to-late 2020s; Advanced Reactor Development Projects pathway, covering a broad scope of concepts and ideas that could improve the capabilities and commercialisation potential of advanced reactor designs and technologies; and Regulatory Assistance Grants, providing support towards obtaining certification and licensing approvals for advanced reactor designs and capabilities.

Compare that to new reactors being built in India of both Indian and Russian design and its almost sh