Sentences with phrase «of reactor technology»

Both Gates and Musk are invested in molten salt type of reactor technology.

Not exact matches

Part of the problem at that time was the lack of diagnostic and synchronization technology available then to build a working reactor.

In addition, the Energy Department has to approve the transfer of technology related to nuclear reactors and fuel.

Founder and Chief Technology Officer Michel Laberge (left) and CEO Doug Richardson of General Fusion stand in front of their experimental reactor.

We thought the technology would be the easy part, but it took three dozen engineers, three years, and tens of thousands of plasma - reactor design simulations to get it right.

Our technology is based on a variant of chemical vapor deposition, which builds the diamond lattice atom by atom in a reactor that creates a plasma akin to the outer core of the sun.

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.

BEIJING (AP)-- On a seaside field south of Shanghai, workers are constructing a nuclear reactor that is the flagship for Beijing's ambition to compete with the United States, France and Russia as an exporter of atomic power technology.

The installation of the GWE COHRAL (TM) technology by Australian environmental engineering and green energy authority CST Wastewater solutions is the first GWE COHRAL (TM) installation in the world, deploying for the first time in a covered lagoon GWE anaerobic technology proven in more than 300 reactor (tank) installations worldwide.

While GWE's anaerobic waste water technology has been proved worldwide at more than 300 installations of totally enclosed tanks, or reactors, this is the first time it has been applied to a covered lagoon, an application where it has enormous further potential in countries with strong agribusiness sectors.

The installation of the GWE COHRAL ™ technology by Australian environmental engineering and green energy authority CST Wastewater solutions is the first GWE COHRAL ™ installation in the world, deploying for the first time in a covered lagoon GWE anaerobic technology proven in more than 300 reactor (tank) installations worldwide.

Under the leadership of GWE President and CEO Mr Jean Pierre Ombregt, GWE's anaerobic waste water technology has been proved worldwide at more than 300 installations of totally enclosed tanks, or reactors.

Which wise government spending (see: investment in technology and other productivity - enhancing measures) can help that last bit, which is one reason I'm all in favor of spending on alternative energy research (I'm a little sick of sending hundreds of billions of dollars per year overseas for hydrocarbons; I'd rather employ Americans to maintain windfarms, solar plants, not - on - the - table - now - but - maybe - soon thorium reactors, etc.).

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.

Harrison says he hopes the new collaboration will enable the transfer of some ILL technology to these new research reactors.

Understanding the nature of radiation damage in materials is of paramount importance for controlling the safety of nuclear reactors, using ion implantation in semiconductor technology, and designing reliable devices in space.

Japan's nuclear plant crisis with the radioactivity contamination from spent fuel pools is likely to put an overdue spotlight on stalemated U.S. policies for managing reactor fuel, authors of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report on the nuclear fuel cycle said yesterday.

Two young plasma physicists at Chalmers University of Technology have now taken us one step closer to a functional fusion reactor.

«Early in the discovery of any new technology you have this rosy picture that is formed,» Candris admits of small modular reactors.

Instead, B&W suggests that the fundamental problem facing the adoption of nuclear power is not the technology itself, but the financial risk of committing to a build a big nuclear reactor.

Tsunami - damaged nuclear reactors, Twitter - fueled political uprisings, a possible violation of Einsteinian physics — these and other highlights defined this year in science and technology

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

The chemistry of protactinium, which is very difficult to study due to it scarcity and complex chemistry, is important for understanding and controlling its behavior for application in nuclear reactors, as well as for comprehending the overall variable and complex chemistry of the actinide series and transition elements used in everyday technologies.

Hyperion's 25 - megawatt prototype, which is based on technology developed at nearby Los Alamos National Laboratory and is similar to reactors long used on Russian submarines, gets by with more conventional levels of uranium enrichment but could still run 8 to 10 years without refueling.

The mPower reactor would be contained below ground and will have passive safety systems, taking advantage of current Generation III technologies.

While the industry was in deep freeze, they were pressing ahead with one of the most promising emerging technologies in energy: micro-size nuclear reactors, fully functional power plants a good deal closer to the size of the test reactor I'm standing near.

Ostara, the firm that makes the reactors and sells the pellets as Crystal Green, thinks that Durham is one of hundreds of facilities that could use the technology.

North Korea says it's pulling out of disarmament talks and restarting its nuclear reactor, after its launch of a rocket that critics said was designed to test its long - range missile technology drew international outrage.

Meanwhile, opponents of nuclear technologies are not convinced that small reactors are an improvement over traditional designs.

If the president's request is approved by Congress it will put a severe squeeze on the U.S. domestic fusion program and will force the closure of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Alcator C - Mod reactor, one of only three large machines, known as tokamaks, in the United States that are doing vital research in preparation for ITER.

With that in mind, Koonin asked NRC to suggest DOE's next steps on the road to a demonstrator power reactor, including a road map of technology development.

The report also notes that while «there have been impressive R&D efforts to develop a wide range of driver technologies... very little effort has been spent on developing the technology of the reactor chambers or on addressing materials problems peculiar to inertial fusion.»

The one possible turn in the otherwise rough road in the West could be a shift in technology toward small, modular reactors (SMRs), which U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Secretary Ernest Moniz said could be deployed as soon as 2022 with his agency's support.

Halas said she is most excited about the broad potential of the antenna - reactor catalytic technology.

A key to the advances, which have been published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research, is use of both a «continuous flow» chemical reactor, and microwave heating technology that's conceptually similar to the ovens that are part of almost every modern kitchen.

The greatest objection to the spread of nuclear technology and power reactors to developing countries, however, is that it will increase the risks of nuclear weapons proliferation.

Even if the costs could be squared — which nowadays looks doubtful, given the pre-eminence of light - water reactor technology these days — there remains that other great objection.

Japan has pursued fast - breeder technology, through which a reactor can produce more plutonium than it burns in hopes of cutting or eliminating imports of nuclear fuel.

That additional level of transmutation might prove too costly, both in terms of getting the technology licensed to operate in the U.K. and in constructing the reactor itself.

Build before Memory Runs Out Although individual consumer actions can help, major changes in carbon output will likely require better electricity - generation technologies, retiring much of the coal - fired capacity and replacing it with the most cost - effective combination of modern reactors, renewables and even clean coal.

Now they are part of CENG's small «fleet,» along with the Calvert Cliffs reactors in southern Maryland — three different plants with different technologies, different histories and individual workforce cultures.

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.

Co-founder Mark Massie said building modern nuclear reactors on first - generation technology is analogous to building airliners out of the same wood and cloth the Wright brothers used in their prototype (ClimateWire, Dec. 15, 2014).

The Japanese government's Science and Technology Agency wants Japanese and Russian scientists to collaborate on the development of a new generation of reactors fuelled by plutonium.

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.

In the spring 2017 issue, meet the people who work round the clock at Argonne's giant synchrotron, using X-rays to tease out the secrets of everything from volcanic glass to batteries to bacterial machinery — as well as engineers who travel the world to make reactors safer, physicists who collect model ships, and scientists inventing materials for the next technology breakthroughs.

Commercially, plants using «clean coal» technology can be more attractive than new reactors, says the company in its submission to the government's review of the nuclear industry.

The Chalk River site is the home of the remaining operating nuclear reactor, nuclear operations to support medical isotope production, a diverse science and technology group, and an organization focused on environmental remediation and decommissioning.

«The technology with the potential to solve these problems (of climate change, future energy shortfalls and cleaning up nuclear waste) is the fast reactor, ideally the integral fast reactor (IFR)... IFRs, once loaded with nuclear waste, can, in principle, keep recycling it until only a small fraction remains, producing energy as they do so.»