Sentences with phrase «pressurised water reactors»

However, the two 1180 MWe pressurised water reactors were taken offline again for inspections in September 2013.

Pressurised water reactors (PWRs) This is the most common type worldwide.

France's electricity company EDF is buying new lids for its pressurised water reactors.

These plants include four small gas - graphite reactors at Bilibino, four RBMK gas - graphite reactors at St Petersburg and Kursk, and four VVER 440/230 pressurised water reactors at Kola and Novovoronezh (see Map).

Spent fuel from Sizewell B, Britain's first pressurised water reactor, will not be sent to Sellafield for reprocessing.

This was the reaction of Len Green, a spokesman for Nuclear Electric, to accusations that the company's nearly completed Sizewell B pressurised water reactor in Suffolk has a flaw that increases the likelihood of a meltdown.

The barrage «would last 120 years, or four times as long as a pressurised water reactor».

The CAREM design was developed by Invap under contract with the CNEA as a simplified modular pressurised water reactor (PWR) with integral steam generators.

Originally, a joint effort of French AREVA and German Siemens AG (which has since pulled out), it will be the largest PWR (pressurised water reactor) in the world.

Not exact matches

Nuclear Electric expects to finish loading uranium dioxide fuel into Britain's first commercial pressurised - water reactor this week.

Not to be outdone, Suffolk County Council, on whose flat shoreland stands Sizewell B, Britain's first pressurised - water reactor, has announced a public inquiry into the proposal to build a replica of the PWR on the site.

Almost under the blue - green dome of Britain's first pressurised - water reactor, now nearing completion on the flat shoreline of Suffolk, is a purpose - built Job Centre.

India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh has said that the country should expand its nuclear energy program mainly by using its indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors, of which the country now has 18 installed.

It is not fission reactors that are wrong per se, but the prevailing use of boiling and pressurised water solid - fuelled reactors.

Most reactors of this type are known as pressurised heavy water reactors, favoured especially in Canada.

Such equipment is required on pressurised - water reactors in the West.

Each is a 440 - megawatt pressurised - water reactor of a type called VVER 440/213.