Sentences with phrase «of research reactor»

Operation of the research reactor results unavoidably in radioactive materials.

The supervisory authority, the Senate Department for Health, Environment and Consumer Protection, regularly tests the safety of the research reactor with the assistance of independent experts.

We have taken many measures to ensure these remain contained during every operating phase of the research reactor.

To compare, the power of our research reactor is 10 megawatts.

Radiologist Leonard Sternglass cites a study of a research reactor located about 100 yards from where I work in Urbana, Illinois.

One of the first licensing activities of the Authority might be in the field of research reactors for which it would furnish on lease denatured plutonium or U 235.

Not exact matches

In 2007, Israeli airstrikes took out Syria's research reactor (which it had built with the aid of North Korea).

Based on previous research and work in the field of plasma physics, the two former Creo laser printing employees believe they can build a reactor to fuse hydrogen atoms together by pneumatically - driven pistons and produce enormous increases in energy.

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.

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.).

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).

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.

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.

Using neutron scattering experiments at the BER II research reactor, Manfred Reehuis and Michael Tovar were successful in determining the structural and magnetic properties for each of the mixed crystal specimens over quite a wide temperature range, from near the zero point of the Kelvin temperature scale to above 900 K.

New developments include reaction systems for catalysis research, sampling from reactors, systems for high - throughput applications in synthesis, the handling of microorganisms or cell - culturing procedures, and more.

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.

The rest of this special News & Analysis section examines what we have learned about radiation risks from previous exposures (p. 1504), improvements in safety since the boiling water designs at Fukushima (p. 1506), what to do with the wrecked reactors (p. 1507), and damage to research facilities from the earthquake (p. 1509).

Dozens of civilian research reactors have closed or converted from HEU — uranium enriched to at least 20 % of the fissile isotope U-235 — to safer low enriched uranium (LEU), including 28 since 2009.

On the other hand, in magnetic field confinement fusion plasma intended for a fusion reactor, which research is being conducted at the National Institute for Fusion Science, development of high precision electron density measurements is becoming an important research topic.

The panel, known as the Neutron Landscape Group, said last week that as the aging reactors shut down over the next 5 to 10 years, the number of neutrons available for research will fall by as much as half.

THE PROPOSED take over of ANSTO by the CSIRO has raised questions about the current public inquiry into a proposed new research reactor.

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.

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.

«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.

Conceived in the 1970s, Monju was once at the leading edge of research into fast fission reactors, which have always been controversial because they burn plutonium, an ingredient in bombs.

Shuttering of Chalk River research reactor also ends Canada's national source of neutron beam time

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.

Canadian scientists are upset about the imminent closure of the Chalk River research reactor and are lobbying the government for a CA$ 200 million ($ 162 million) commitment so they can continue to perform materials research using the neutron beams that research reactors provide.

«The answer that I got from them at the end of October,» said Eggar, «was that they felt, having examined all their priorities across all the R&D, that they could not give enough priority to fast breeder reactor research.

The research, a major step toward bridging the gap between laboratory studies and industrial catalysis, could help improve the design and environmental impact of catalytic reactors, including tiny «lab - on - a-chip» devices, which are used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and other chemical products.

In addition, the team found that large proportions of the NE budget were spent maintaining research infrastructure that only marginally supports advanced reactors.

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.

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.

Since the 1950s roughly $ 100 billion has been spent on the research and development of such reactors around the world, yet there is currently only one producing electricity — the BN - 600 reactor in Russia, operational since 1980.

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 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 neutrons.

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

Acting on two (of 12) spending bills under its jurisdiction, the panel agreed on Wednesday to increase the president's request for fusion research at the Department of Energy by a total of $ 76 million, including $ 48 million more for the domestic program and $ 28 million for the U.S. contribution to the ITER fusion reactor being built in France.

The Department of Atomic Energy will grow by a healthy 21 %, to $ 2.5 billion, with $ 61 million for the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research in Kalpakkam, possibly for development of a new fuel for the fast breeder reactor.

South Korea is already developing the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (K - STAR) project and contributing to ITER, the $ 15 - billion (US$ 20 - billion) experimental reactor being built in Cadarache, France, under the auspices of an international collaboration.

The research would culminate in the commissioning of the first European fast reactor (EFR) early next century.

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.