Sentences with phrase «operating reactor»

Over the past week, countries around the world have announced plans to check the safety of operating reactors and rethink nuclear power policies.

So by operating a reactor on pure thorium and uranium - 233, you can avoid producing the kind of long - lived waste that needs a place like Yucca Mountain.

Transfers of casks from operating reactors could follow, and the report authors said that would help resolve a long - running court dispute over payments nuclear plant operators are required to make to the federal government in return for federal storage of the spent fuel — a bargain the federal government has not kept.

The Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, an industry body, estimates that core cooling systems are not functioning at all three Fukushima Daiichi operating reactors and two of the four reactors at the nearby Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant are relying on backup cooling systems.

Having an installed base of safely operating reactors should make it easier to win approval for selling the units individually or in smaller bundles later on, Reyes contends.

China's currently operating reactors deliver nearly 11 gigawatts of electricity — or more than half the amount delivered by the nation's notorious Three Gorges Dam alone.

Catalytic micro-reactors may provide green chemistry alternatives — less chemical waste, lower cost and minimal energy waste — to conventional, industrial - sized reactors because they make it easier to control the chemical - reaction conditions and operate the reactor closer to optimal conditions.

Over 80 % of U.S. reactors and one - third of all western operating reactors use our fuel storage systems.

The reactor vessel is subject to cumulative neutron fluence in 120 years of operation that is less than that has been experienced by presently operating reactors.

Other studies of leukemia clusters near operating reactors (in Germany and elsewhere) are conclusive.

So there were four or five sites that would have been the site for the first nuclear chain reaction and the first operating reactor, but for the further intervention of the U.S. Government.

We have some rough statistics on how many messes per operating reactor we create.

He notes there are currently 439 operating reactors worldwide.

To calculate the emissions from Germany's electricity production in 2016 that could have been avoided without nuclear plant closures, we estimated the electricity production of all of Germany's historically operating reactors larger than 600MW.

South Korea, the world's fifth - biggest user of nuclear power, has developed its own nuclear industry, constructing and operating its reactors through KEPCO.

The state, that has seven operating reactors on its soil and whose Savannah River National Laboratory was at the forefront of America's nuclear efforts during the Cold War, is now poised to host the rise of the emerging global industry in small modular reactors (SMR).

That amount increases by about 2,000 metric tons each year as fuel is unloaded from operating reactors.

At present 5,900 tons of high - level waste (HLW) in the form of spent fuel assemblies are sitting in pools next to operating reactors, together with 75 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste, plus 27 million cubic feet of trans - uranic waste (TRU).

Each day, some two billion gallons of water are pumped from Long Island Sound into the Millstone Power Station in Waterford, Conn. — that state's only nuclear power plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating reactors.

The Homer Simpson factor Of course, human error has yet to be eliminated from either operating reactors or those that exist only on paper.

After the weld failed, the weight fell off and crashed 13 metres into the operating reactor.

Some progress was made, however, particularly in divvying up the costs of building and operating the reactor.

In 2008 the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission found fake and possibly faulty valves, pipes and electrical breakers — those not actually verified to stand up to the rigors posed by an operating reactor — at two nuclear facilities in the U.S.

But until recently, it was not possible to probe gas temperatures in the reaction mixture without at the same time perturbing the flow inside an operating reactor.

In November 2015, following concerns over equipment inspections, the NRA determined JAEA was not competent to operate the reactor.

In November 2015, following concerns over equipment inspections, the NRA determined the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) was not competent to operate the reactor.

But it's at a critical juncture, with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo having vowed to shut it down and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission weighing relicensing for the two operating reactors.

As of mid-2012, China had 15 operating reactors, with a total capacity of nearly 13 gigawatts, and 26 new reactors under construction, with a capacity of about 29 gigawatts.

We operated the reactor on a vacuum to enhance the extraction of oxygen.

It is one of the countries with the most advanced technology to construct and operate reactors.