Sentences with phrase «operating reactors on»

In return they got permission to operate reactors on average 12 years beyond 2021.

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

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.

Not exact matches

And on March 10, 2011, the NRC licensed the boiling - water reactor of similar design and vintage at Vermont Yankee to operate for another 20 years (pdf), just one day before the Fukushima crisis.

The evaluations must ensure that backup cooling systems for reactors and spent fuel pools can operate for a long time in «blackout» conditions, where on - site and off - site power is cut off.

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.

Across the East China Sea, west of Japan and its ongoing crisis, sits the growing Qinshan nuclear power plant, where four new pressurized - water reactors are under construction in addition to the five already operating on - site.

In fact, atmospheric pressure rapidly increased eightfold before the explosion in reactor No. 1 on March 12 (nuclear power plants typically operate at roughly 4 atmospheres of pressure).

By JUAN MATTHEWS and COLIN ENGLISHSafety inspectors threatened to close down the oldest commercial nuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on working.

Safety inspectors threatened to close down the oldest commercial nuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on working.

The world's first commercial - size fast reactor, the BN - 600 near Ekaterinburg in the central Urals, began operating in 1980 on a fuel of enriched uranium.

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.

And that is exactly what GEH has done to create PRISM, building on the EBR - II reactor, which operated successfully for 30 years.

Construction work began in December 2007 on the 1650 MWe unit at the Flamanville site in Normandy - where two reactors have been operating since 1986 and 1987.

Prism is a sodium - cooled fast neutron reactor design built on more than 30 years of development work, benefitting from the operating experience of the EBR - II prototype integral fast reactor which operated at the USA's Idaho National Laboratory — formerly Argonne National Laboratory — from 1963 to 1994.

Providing a licensed nuclear site on which several nuclear reactors have been built and operated.

As part of its nuclear science program, WSU operates a 1 - million - watt TRIGA nuclear reactor on its Pullman campus.

GEH and ARC Nuclear have each developed advanced reactor designs based on the EBR - II, an integral sodium - cooled fast reactor prototype which was developed by Argonne National Laboratory and operated successfully for more than 30 years at Idaho Falls, Idaho.

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».)

Survival for the Canadian nuclear industry also depends on keeping its 22 aging CANDU reactors operating.

The reactor is designed to never be opened on site and thus there is little opportunity for diversion of radioactive material from operating plants.

One design, by MIT professor Charles Forsberg, called the AHTR, combines a flouride - salt - cooled reactor with a gas turbine; one variation on it incorporates injecting gas to the turbine for high temperature turbine generation, so that the power plant can operate for both baseload and peak power.

The average age of nuclear reactors operating today is 27 years; the 142 reactors that have already retired were just 23 years old on average when they closed.

Operators of an additional 38 reactors in 23 states are facing decisions on whether to extend operating licenses.