Sentences with phrase «of reactor designers»
This resilience reflects the caution of reactor designers, who build a margin of error into their seismic engineering.
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Testing that has been completed on components of the system, dubbed KRUSTY, has been «greatly successful — the models have predicted very well what has happened, and operations have gone smoothly,» said Dave Poston, chief reactor designer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
«The Australian water and wastewater industry has been dominated by low pressure in - channel UV systems, but increasingly designers and end - users are starting to appreciate the benefits of closed reactor medium pressure systems.
That additional cooling would limit the pressure created by any steam buildup, theoretically allowing the reactor's designers to employ less strength in other parts of the safety system.
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.
During that time, ITER's designers anticipate that the reactor will put out 500 megawatts of power while using only 50 megawatts, a tenfold energy gain.
In order to increase the number of thermal neutrons, thermal neutron reactor designers choose materials which slow down the fast neutrons in order to turn them into useful thermal neutrons.
Westinghouse, General Electric and other companies are major designers and suppliers of components for nuclear reactors.
The project has been plagued by billions of dollars in cost overruns, stagnant demand for electricity, competition from cheap natural gas plants and renewables, and the bankruptcy of Westinghouse Electric, the lead contractor and the designer of the AP1000 reactor that was supposed to be the foundation of a smarter, cheaper generation of nuclear power plants.
The NRC's July 1986 «Statement of Policy for Regulation of Advanced Nuclear Power Plants» encourages reactor designers to discuss licensing issues with the agency before submitting a full license application.
The BN - series reactors continue to use oxide fuels because they have achieved reasonably good results with that type of fuel and the responsible designers do not see any compelling reason to change.
1983: Davis Polk successfully defends Babcock & Wilcox, a designer and manufacturer of nuclear reactors, in a $ 4 billion suit brought by General Public Utilities as a result of the Three - Mile Island accident.