Sentences with phrase «power generation reactors»

Let alone exciting things such as social unrest, power generation reactors are subject to the more mundane problems of boredom, sloth, indolence, greed and failed imagination.

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The new Ford class carriers will feature an improved nuclear reactor with three times the power - generation capacity as the Nimitz class.

In the attempt to put a stop to further reactor construction, the antinuclear movement may be tempted to constipate the system — to plug up the radwaste outlet for the nuclear industry — hoping thereby to force a shutdown of electrical power generation.

How does the question of reactor waste disposal relate to the overall issue of whether or not we should employ nuclear power generation at all?

GWE combine specialized know - how in generating biogas with our extensive range of anaerobic reactors, and in supply and installation of biogas re-use and handling systems for fossil fuel replacement or power generation.

While nuclear reactors do not emit carbon dioxide at the point of power generation, the nuclear fuel chain is responsible for carbon emissions during mining, milling, enriching, construction, transportation, and decommissioning.

This is a fluidized bed reactor, an energy - generation technology that has been used for decades to power paper mills and waste - treatment plants but that had never before been installed in an ethanol plant.

By harnessing energy from the sun — «this handy fusion reactor in the sky,» he called it last night — getting enough renewable energy on the power grid and smoothing out energy generation and use between peak and off - peak hours, the nation and planet can shift away from fossil fuels» dominance as a power source, he told the crowd.

Nuclear power provides about a third of the European Union's electricity generation, but the 28 - nation bloc's 131 reactors are well past their prime, with an average age of 30 years.

Meeting coal demand in Japan Indonesian coal is also expected to help fuel a surge in fossil power generation in Japan after that country shuttered its nuclear plants in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor meltdown in 2011.

- Small nuclear reactors, which can provide localized carbon - free power, are so popular that they are on a three - year back order from their manufacturer, Hyperion Power Generapower, are so popular that they are on a three - year back order from their manufacturer, Hyperion Power GeneraPower Generation.

To get around these problems, Japan's Toshiba and Hyperion Power Generation of Santa Fe, New Mexico, are pushing rival micro reactors.

Toshiba, Hyperion Power Generation, Sandia National Labs, and TerraPower — a company underwritten in part by Bill Gates — also have downsized nuclear reactor concepts in the works.

They see a market in servicing large electric utilities that want to incrementally expand their generation capacity, developing countries that can not afford or make good use of traditional reactors, and off - grid and hard - to - power sites.

The safety features and power backups built into third - generation reactors should shut them down safely even without electrical power

Five nuclear power stations in Britain use first - generation Magnox reactors, with steel pressure vessels.

A new era for nuclear power is taking shape as third - generation reactors, designed to be simpler and safer, inch through the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) design certification process.

Due east along Guangdong's coastline, one of the region's most sophisticated technological projects, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Complex, is also the stage for a cutting - edge experiment in high - energy physics: measuring the proportion of electron antineutrinos from the nuclear reactors that morph into other types, or generations, of these leptons as they speed through space.

A possible strategy for freeing nuclear power from its current impasse would be built around a new generation of lower - power, centrally fabricated nuclear reactors designed for inherent safety

Neutrinos, or more specifically antineutrinos, are also emitted as a by - product of power generation in manmade nuclear reactors, giving scientists a powerful way to study them on Earth in a controlled manner.

A fourth generation reactor designed by GEH, PRISM incorporates the groundbreaking features of the Argonne Laboratory's project, representing a technological leap that could power the UK or similar countries for hundreds of years with used nuclear fuel that is already on hand.

Instead, several respondents heaped abuse on the potential of nuclear power in general despite the fact that the great bulk of their criticisms related to the shortcomings of third generation reactors.

I also, as some could predict, planned to ask how nuclear power fits, given the reality that a swift shutdown of the state's and region's nuclear reactors is unlikely and, without nuclear generation the challenge of a swift from fossil fuels becomes that much bigger.

Behind the histrionics and talking points framing the decades - long battle over the place of nuclear power in America's (and the world's) energy menu, there have long been hints of a path forward, both for dealing with existing, aging reactors and considering a new generation of technologies.

The four scientists call for an increase in ambition in the deployment of improved light - water reactors, with the accelerated development of advanced fission technologies to accompany planned increases in solar, wind and hydro power generation.

Increasing nuclear power plant efficiency from 1980 to today came from two areas: first, improvements to how operators re-fuel reactors, and keep plants and their workers safe; second, increasing the heat and electrical generation of plants through «up - rates.»

Nuclear defenders are calling for keeping things in perspective — fossil fuels, they point out, have many more costs and risks associated with them than nuclear power; and newer generation reactor designs are far safer than those built in Japan many decades ago (a number of US plants from the same era have the same or similar designs).

Thorium reactors could be a game changer here for power generation and heat with serviced buildings; but we'll still a long way off of good electrical storage in transportation — aircraft, trucks, ships, and cars will continue to burn oil products until that eureka moment)

These would produce enough power to replace five large nuclear power stations, tellingly at about the same time as the first of the much - touted new generation of reactors is likely to come on stream.

any nuclear reactor wherever located; any nuclear fuel cycle facility; any radioactive waste management facility; the transport and storage of nuclear fuels or radioactive wastes; the manufacture, use, storage, disposal and transport of radioisotopes for agricultural, industrial, medical and related scientific and research purposes; and the use of radioisotopes for power generation in space objects

Even if all reactors scheduled to come online by 2015 make it, the projected closing of 93 nuclear reactors by then will drop nuclear power generation roughly 10 percent below the current level.

The project has been plagued by billions of dollars in cost overruns, stagnant demand for electricity, competition from cheap natural gas plants and renewables, and the bankruptcy of Westinghouse Electric, the lead contractor and the designer of the AP1000 reactor that was supposed to be the foundation of a smarter, cheaper generation of nuclear power plants.

Certainly the experience with some of the nuclear power plants being built now does not give rise to confidence in the claims for the theoretical Generation IV nuclear reactors.

Current generation land - based nuclear reactors cost $ 10,000,000 per megawatt capacity or about $ 5 billion for the power plant not counting the cost of the equipment to convert electricity to fuel.

And, the nuclear industry is working on developing a new generation of small modular reactors that can provide power for cities or local communities at a much lower cost.

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.

Such storage could be the key to enabling more renewable sources of electricity generation — providing power when the sun is not shining or the wind not blowing — or simply making the best use of existing resources, such as sucking up power that would otherwise be dumped from always - on nuclear reactors.

However, all of these designs must demonstrate enhanced safety above and beyond current light water reactor systems if the next generation of nuclear power plants is to grow in number far beyond the current population.

The country has plans to construct a set of new reactors to maintain electricity supply and cut carbon dioxide emissions as a generation of older power plants is shut down.

We are exceptionally well - versed in the next generation of nuclear power plants, including Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).