Sentences with phrase «other reactors»

It can be adapted to recycle spent elements from other reactors, turning nuclear waste from a liability into an asset.

People living around other reactors will demand that they be closed as rapidly as possible.

In addition, the integral fast reactor can burn radioactive waste from other reactors and produce its own fuel.

Because they were built to withstand such earthquakes, while Indian Point and other reactors in the East were not:

Indeed, why is it that discussions about Lockheed Martin's prototype and other reactor designs are more easily characterised as an optimistic but sober treatment of the facts, whereas solar zealots quickly lose control of their faculties when as little as a megawatt is added to the grid anywhere in the world?

Unlike most other reactors, air flowing naturally around the lower containment vessel is all that is needed to keep the reactor fuel cool at all times.

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

Since 2010, California closed one nuclear plant (2,140 MW installed capacity) while Germany closed 5 nuclear plants and 4 other reactors at currently - operating plants (10,980 MW in total).

The SFR can also burn spent nuclear rods from other reactors and depleted uranium left over from the uranium - enrichment process, putting a serious dent in the nuclear waste problem.

«If that happened it would have triggered a second steam explosion that would have done unimaginable damage and destroyed the entire power station, including the three other reactors,» author Andrew Leatherbarrow wrote in an email to Tech Insider.

Also, leaks from the other reactor's pools holding spent fuel have reached the river, the department said.

The other reactor was shut down for three days earlier this month due to a tripped circuit breaker.

Promulgate an amendment to Part 54 and any other relevant regulations, which exclude seismicity analysis from the scope of safety review in relicensing proceedings, to specifically require the preparation of a public site - specific seismic analysis for the Indian Point and other reactors;

The plant's other reactor, Indian Point 3, remained running.

The other reactor, Indian Point 2, was closed for repairs Sept. 3.

The other reactor on the site was unaffected.

Youri, our guide, told us: «They built it after the accident when the other reactors were still operating.

Compared to other reactors, if you look at NRC studies, according to calculations, it has a relatively low core - damage frequency.

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 other reactor was fed with the entire quantity once per day, in one experiment, and once every other day in a second experiment.

As many as 29 other reactors could be built, according to Bill Borchardt, director of the NRC's Office of New Reactors.

«Our concerns were based on the fact that other reactors have had shutdowns over the past five years,» Ruth continued.

Added to that you have an increasing number of reactors to power up simultaneously and when powering up one, the other reactors begin to lose power.

His source of information gave no evidence about recycling efficiency, because none of the separated plutonium fuel is now being recycled to other reactors, according to Nicole Striker of the Idaho National Laboratory.