Sentences with phrase «operating research reactor»

But the U.S. in 1991 bombed an operating research reactor in Iraq.

These efforts include installing a 30 - ton detector system (with shielding) in an operating research reactor building as close as 21 feet to the reactor core without affecting HFIR's primary missions of neutron scattering research, isotope production and testing of irradiated materials.

The 60 - year - old reactor — the world's oldest operating research reactor — is slated to shut down in March 2018, after which Canadian and other scientists will no longer be able to use the highly specialized equipment in their experiments.

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 neutrons.

There have been a host of efforts to describe Japan's earthquake and nuclear emergency, ranging from volumes of helpful graphics generated by The Times and other media to freelance efforts, including the «sonification» of a month of earthquake activity surrounding the great quake off Japan by Paul May and a chart by Randall Munroe comparing human radiation exposure from an array of sources — ranging from a banana to a mammogram to a leaking nuclear plant and «A Layman's Intro to Radiation» by Ellen McManis, who operates a research reactor at Reed College.

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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.

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.

Experimental Breeder Reactor - II is a 20 - megawatt research reactor that has been operating since 1964.

«The NRC is a full participant into the ongoing research examining whether it's technically feasible to consider «second» renewals to extend reactor operating life,» Burnell says.

Canada's Chalk River complex contains the 60 - year - old National Research Universal reactor, the world's oldest operating nuclear reactor.

The European fast reactor programme — led by Britain, France and Germany — had hoped to carry out important research at the fast reactor research centre at Dounreay in Scotland, which is operated by AEA Technology.

By the end of 2019 the research reactor BER II will be operated in this mode, after which it will be switched off according to the decision of the Supervisory Board.

The research reactor has automatic shutdown systems that will be triggered by any deviation from normal operating conditions.

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

The high - flux research reactor SM - 3 is a vessel - type water - cooled reactor operated at intermediate neutrons.

RIAR operates six nuclear research reactors, the Europe's biggest reactor materials testing complex for PIE of the core components, fuel cycle R&D facilities, radiochemical complex and radioactive waste management facilities.

Program prepares individuals to apply scientific principles and technical skills in support of research scientists and operating engineers engaged in the running of nuclear reactors, and in nuclear materials processing and disposal.

What you'll learn * Program prepares individuals to apply scientific principles and technical skills in support of research scientists and operating engineers engaged in the running of nuclear reactors, and in nuclear materials processing and disposal.