Sentences with phrase «on new reactor designs»

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«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.

Their efforts focus on two new designs: the very - high - temperature reactor (VHTR) and the sodium - cooled fast reactor (SFR).

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.

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».)

The new reactor is designed for basic research on fusion and also as a potential prototype power plant that could produce significant power.

If there's $ 5 billion for Elon Musk to build a private space company, there should at least as much to demonstrate new, advanced reactor designs including the SMR and MSR, and push harder on accident tolerant fuels.

There are eight new small modular reactors on a fast track to generic approval in the US — and more than 45 designs under development globally.