Sentences with phrase «power reactors»

He noted that every state that has developed nuclear weapons has done it with research reactors not power reactors.

Due to its properties, it is extensively used in nuclear power reactors and in the production of nuclear weapons.

NuScale builds on lessons learned from the existing fleet of commercial power reactors and incorporates those lessons into the fundamental design of the NuScale plant, as well as including several new design innovations to further enhance safety.

There is no prospect that for several years such power reactors as described here could be licensed, for the reason that there would not be enough fissionable materials produced in the plants of the Authority.

«Now in China we have 13 nuclear power reactors in operation,» said Zhang Guobao, former vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission — the government agency charged with setting energy and industrial policy — via a translator during a visit to NDRC headquarters in Beijing this past November.

Salehi claims their deaths emboldened, rather than deterred, Iran's nuclear establishment, and insists that Iran's enrichment program was intended only to produce fuel for civilian power reactors.

RIAR's reactors provide a full range of capabilities to test fuel and materials of all types of existing power reactors as well as advanced and innovative ones: water - cooled thermal reactors, including those with boiling and pressurized water, gas - cooled, fast and other types of reactors.

American nuclear power reactors operated that year around the clock at about 90 percent capacity, whereas coal - fired plants operated at about 73 percent, hydroelectric plants at 29 percent, natural gas from 16 to 38 percent, wind at 27 percent, solar at 19 percent, and geothermal at 75 percent.»

The aim is to carry out work that will speed the effort towards a commercial fusion power reactor after ITER.

The tubes were tested inside MIT's research reactor in special loops that replicate the coolant temperature and chemistry conditions in large power reactors.

At the end of 2015 there were 66 civil power reactors under construction around the world and another 158 planned.

While the character of the plasma in a tokamak power reactor will not likely represent a large energy - release safety issue, the superconducting magnets would contain a huge amount of stored energy.

France could buy used fuel rods from the US power reactors for less than nothing, and just remove the fission products to make a fuel that has far more energy than the fuel normaly used by the Canadians.

All but two of the 440 or so commercial nuclear reactors operating are thermal, and most of them — including the 103 U.S. power reactors — employ water both to slow neutrons and to carry fission - created heat to the associated electric generators.

NRC's Office of New Reactors warned Babcock & Wilcox in June that the agency «will need to limit interactions with the designers of small power reactors to occasional meetings or other nonresource - intensive activities» over the next two years because of a crowded schedule of work on other proposals.

The report proposes reshuffling U.S. plasma research, in particular doing less basic plasma physics and more technology development for future power reactors.

Bomb - grade uranium is enriched to above 90 percent and most power reactors use uranium that is enriched up to 5 percent.

Today's CANDU power reactors represent proven technology and have a long history of evolutionary advancements to reduce capital costs, enhance safety and exploit this design's exceptional fuel cycle flexibility.

On Wednesday, the government's nuclear power utility inked a deal to buy at least two power reactors from France — India's first major nuclear purchase from the West since it exploded an atom bomb in 1974 and came under international sanctions.

With that in mind, Koonin asked NRC to suggest DOE's next steps on the road to a demonstrator power reactor, including a road map of technology development.

The IR8 and IR6 are the two candidates that could really meet our needs in terms of producing enough enrichment capacity to meet the annual needs of [the Bushehr power reactor].

And 10 years from now, we will have two other nuclear power reactors added to Bushehr.

«The next step in power reactor performance levels, at which the plasma is capable of ignition and plasma «burn» (wherein most of the heating energy comes from the fusion reactions), again requires a new, more powerful experimental device.

Old power plants could be retrofitted with BlackLight Power reactors, which would produce no emissions or hazardous waste, Mills says.

Our research and development capabilities have contributed to two of the most successful reactor technologies in the world: the versatile CANDU ® power reactors and the ultra-safe SLOWPOKE research reactors.

There are more than 440 operating nuclear power reactors worldwide, most of which use enriched uranium for fuel, including 99 reactors in the United States.

Through a multi-step process in Russia, the bomb - grade uranium material was converted into a different chemical form and then diluted into low enriched uranium suitable for use in fabricating commercial nuclear power reactor fuel.

In licensing power reactors which are somewhat less safe than research reactors, the Authority would send its representatives to inspect or visit these plants at frequent intervals.

The second, more detailed gameplay trailer shows key moments lifted directly from the original game's famous assault on a Shinra power reactor with Cloud, Barrett, and the collected members of Avalanche rendered in startling detail.

China has formally launched its first indigenous nuclear power reactor design, with some French ancestry but born of two major internal contests, writes Ian Hore - Lacy.

The last new U.S. nuclear power reactor built went into operation in 1996, but construction on that unit began before the Three Mile Island incident in 1979 helped slam the brakes on the industry's first phase of widespread growth.

In recent years it supplied half of the U235 for the US's power reactor fleet by down blending surplus weapons grade HEU.

Nuclear fuel emits radiation long after it's done powering a reactor.

In the nuclear power reactor market, AECL is the third largest global supplier of nuclear energy systems and technology.

About 112 nuclear power reactors run in six countries in Asia, and more than 264 are planned for construction, according to the London - headquartered World Nuclear Association.

Photo Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Map of the U.S. Operating Commercial Nuclear Power Reactors CC BY 2.0

While on stage, Microsoft Vice President of Surface Panos Panay explained how the teams have worked hard in making the next generation of Surface tablets cooler, lighter, quieter, more efficient and have longer lasting power reactors.

The fissionable materials for such power reactors would be derived from the operation of the production plants of the Authority.

Uranium One, which is now wholly - owned subsidiary of Rosatom, sells uranium to civilian power reactors in the United States, according to the Energy Information Administration.

«The nominal fusion power of ITER is 1,500 megawatts; it represents a framework for a full - size fusion power reactor, though it is not designed to produce electricity.

We will be a world leader in the commercialization of advanced fuel designs for existing and future civil power reactors.

Next, there's the induced radioactivity in the structure and moderator of a tokamak power reactor.

All practical commercial power reactors must be capable of quickly adapting to the changing demand on the electric grid, more important today with increased grid contributions from unsteady (e.g., non-constant) solar and wind sources, and SMR - 160 ideally suits that need.

The United States proposes to store the radioactive waste from its 104 nuclear power reactors in the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, roughly 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

In 1961, he returned to industry as Manager of Nuclear R&D for Martin Marietta, where he participated in the development of nuclear batteries for terrestrial and space applications and in the construction and operation of small nuclear power reactors for remote locations (Wyoming and Antarctica).

Of all the power reactors in the United States, the two operating Indian Point reactors have the highest surrounding population both within a 50 - mile radius and a 10 - mile radius.