Sentences with phrase «other reactor designs»

Not exact matches

These results show that understanding how the nanostructures are formed could lead to the ability to design materials with properties ranging from high surface area to high strength for batteries, nuclear reactors, and other energy applications.

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.

There are some 50 modular designs being developed globally, and while many are traditional light water reactors, which use water to cool the reactor core, others gain efficiency by using coolants such as gas, which allow reactors to reach higher temperatures.

«Breed and burn» process TerraPower's design and other once - through reactor designs use a «breed» and «burn» process.

Novel designs with alternative cooling fluids other than water, such as Transatomic Power's molten salt — cooled reactor or the liquid lead — bismuth design from Hyperion Power, are in development.

Graduate student Dayne Swearer worked with them, Rice materials scientist Emilie Ringe and others at Rice and Princeton University to produce, test and analyze the performance of the «antenna - reactor» design.

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.

There are also applications for at least 20 other reactors under scrutiny at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)-- the government agency charged with monitoring the nation's reactors — including final approval of the AP - 1000 design.

As a result, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate also asked the company to assess the integrity of the pressure vessels in the other four Magnox plants, even though Trawsfynydd's vessels receive higher neutron doses than the other reactors because of differences in design.

The U.K. is considering a plan to build two of General Electric's PRISM fast reactors, the latest in a series of fast - reactor designs that for several decades have attempted with mixed success to handle plutonium and other radioactive waste from nuclear power.

Novel design The trouble with fast reactors has largely been related to what's used to cool them — liquid sodium in the case of GE's PRISM and many others.

More exotic designs remain on the horizon, such as reactors powered by thorium fuel, but the AP1000 and other more conventional designs are important for one simple reason: they are being built.

While we are disappointed with DOE's decision to exclude Holtec from the award, we remain confident that our reactor, the SMR - 160, has the greatest potential to triumph in a global marketplace because it is designed to meet the highest expectations of safety and is uniquely engineered to compete economically with other sources of alternative energy in the evolving era of cheap fossil fuels.

The research will allow scientists to design reactors that control the plasma far more than other fusion power devices.

The «Integral and Separate Effects Test Program for the Investigation and Validation of Passive Safety System Performance of SMRs» project would yield a uniquely configurable set of testing platforms to demonstrate passive safety system performance, accelerate the SMR - 160 and other small modular reactor designs to market, and help license these designs with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and international regulators.

CNL is not restricted from building other nuclear reactor designs, and Terrestrial is not restricted from building IMSRs at other locations.

Dominion then began soliciting designs from other reactor vendors — including designs already certified by the NRC.

In addition, the Department announced plans to issue a follow - on solicitation open to other companies and manufacturers, focused on furthering small modular reactor efficiency, operations and design.

(There are other commercial «smaller and sooner» efforts under way, including a much - touted and much - discussed Lockheed Martin reactor design.)

The proposed reactor, using a tokamak (donut - shaped) geometry that is widely studied, is described in a paper in the journal Fusion Engineering and Design, co-authored by Whyte, Ph.D. candidate Brandon Sorbom, and 11 others at MIT.

At present, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission haslittle institutional knowledge of anything other than light - water reactors andvirtually no capability to review or regulate alternative designs.

And nuclear power is just as sustainable as any other power source — even if we only use conventional nuclear fast reactor designs, there is enough uranium in the oceans and on land (recoverable at prices that allow the fuel costs of fast reactors to remain the same as today — which is trivial) to last for 5 billlion years, the expected time remaining fo our sun.

These include accident tolerant fuels, small modular reactors, and other new reactor designs.

When we asked about Hyperion and other small reactor designs, Landrey was quick to draw a line in the sand between NuScale and a less traditional approach.