Sentences with phrase «other reactors at»

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).

Not exact matches

At its Ludwigshafen headquarters and at five other hubs abroad, BASF runs close - knit networks of chemical reactors that churn out products as diverse as basic commodities, coatings, vitamins, drug ingredients and engineering plasticAt its Ludwigshafen headquarters and at five other hubs abroad, BASF runs close - knit networks of chemical reactors that churn out products as diverse as basic commodities, coatings, vitamins, drug ingredients and engineering plasticat five other hubs abroad, BASF runs close - knit networks of chemical reactors that churn out products as diverse as basic commodities, coatings, vitamins, drug ingredients and engineering plastics.

In the wake of the Japan crisis and an MSNBC report that one of the Indian Point reactors is more at risk for earthquake damage than any other in the nation — a claim refuted by the NRC — Cuomo called for a full safety review of the plant.

Officials at the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant near Oswego are investigating why fuel rods in the reactor's core are leaking radiation and while not considered an emergency, it could potentially spread contaminated water to other parts of the plant.

In 2014 Perry asked the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to examine letting the state store higher - level commercial waste that — as in the other states hosting privately run reactors — now sits at the plants where it is generated.

You can find out more about building a fusion reactor at www.fusor.net, an online community of fusioneers who help each other find parts, assemble, and problem solve.

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.

As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor.

Reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi station runs on so - called mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, in which uranium is mixed with other fissile materials such as plutonium from spent reactor fuel or from decommissioned nuclear weapons.

If the fuel rods are no longer being cooled — as has happened at all three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant operating at the time of the earthquake — then the zirconium cladding will swell and crack, releasing the uranium fuel pellets and fission byproducts, such as radioactive cesium and iodine, among others.

Although the utility managed to safely remove all 1,533 fuel bundles from the plant's unit No. 4 reactor by December 2014, it still has to do the same for the hundreds of rods stored at the other three units.

It needs to be: seven of these loops will be stacked on top of each other to form one of the many magnets that will confine and direct hydrogen plasma at up to 100 million °C in the reactor vessel.

On the other hand, in magnetic field confinement fusion plasma intended for a fusion reactor, which research is being conducted at the National Institute for Fusion Science, development of high precision electron density measurements is becoming an important research topic.

Workers built an elaborate scrubbing system that removes cesium, strontium and dozens of other radioactive particles from the water; some of it is recirculated into the reactors, and some goes into row upon row of giant tanks at the site.

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

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.

In October Constellation Energy pulled out of a bid to build a new reactor at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland, among other U.S. nuclear projects that have recently been dropped or delayed.

With the roofs off and other paths for hydrogen to escape — hydrogen is the only element capable of escaping Earth's gravity — the chance of suffering another such explosion has been diminished, except at reactors No. 5 and 6.

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.

Green says that if this happened to a tube at Sizewell B, there would still be 52 other sets of control rods to shut the reactor down.

Moyer: So, the big lie — once you take all these ideas into account, then you have to consider, are we going to be able to make these reactors and are we going to be able to make them work at [a] cost that is effective that is able to compete with whatever other options we have in 30, 40, 50 years and longer.

The school will be structured around lectures delivered by members of CNL's research team and external experts in the mornings, followed by demonstrations and practical sessions in the afternoons during which students will spend time at the Zero Energy Deuterium (ZED - 2) reactor, as well as several other nuclear facilities located on the campus.

Since that time reactor experiments, including those at Daya Bay, have played a crucial role in uncovering the secrets of neutrino oscillations — their tendency to switch among three known flavors: electron, muon, and tau — and other important neutrino properties.

All other sodium reactors use oxide fuels, while PRISM uses a metal fuel, an alloy of zirconium, uranium, and plutonium, and the fuel rods sit in a bath of liquid sodium at atmospheric pressure.

TKF: Let's take a moment to consider that most of the gold, silver and platinum in our valuable jewelry, as well as the uranium in our nuclear reactors, was created when mind - bogglingly dense neutron stars crushed into each other at incredible speeds.

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

Mr. Marcille's stewardship of Holtec's SMR - 160 program is all - encompassing including the development and commissioning of the reactor test loop at Holtec's Technology Campus in Camden, New Jersey which will be a linchpin of the Company's drive to obtain certification for the reactor by the USNRC and other regulatory jurisdictions on an expedited schedule.

The other two ones that I'll mention is the one with ANSTO [Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation], the nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights, where we sent six female students for the last two years out to ANSTO to actually do a work experience program out there, where they actually work in areas that even the teachers can't get to.

And yes, while I believe that it sucks that this happened to Doug Walker as well as many other people in even worse forms (i.e.: temporarily deleting entire channels) while scummier people like «reactors» are still going rampant untouched, I believe that this campaign of his would have not existed AT ALL if Blip was still a thing.

In recent days agency officials have noted that other factors besides economic recovery are likely to amplify the challenge of reining in emissions, among them a retreat on nuclear power in the wake of the ongoing crisis at Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex.

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.

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 least 11 of the EU's 27 members have no nuclear power at all, while five others, including Italy, have pledged to phase out nuclear reactors altogetheAt least 11 of the EU's 27 members have no nuclear power at all, while five others, including Italy, have pledged to phase out nuclear reactors altogetheat all, while five others, including Italy, have pledged to phase out nuclear reactors altogether.

Researchers at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have concentrated 3,000 «suns» of solar thermal energy into a solar reactor at 1,500 °C for thermochemical splitting of H2O and CO2 into hydrogen and carbon monoxide (syngas), the precursor to kerosene and other liquid fuels.

At the back end, GNEP proposes that the lessors separate the plutonium and other actinides and use this material themselves as fuel in a new kind of «burner» reactor.

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.

Despite these issues, Orbach offered some technical solutions to improve safety at similar reactors in other parts of the world.

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.

Yes, the reactor vessels for all these nuclear plants, and many others worldwide, were manufactured by Combustion Engineering at their factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee.