Sentences with phrase «pressurized water reactor»

The nuclear plant has two three - loop pressurized water reactors designed by Westinghouse.

NuScale Power has created a new kind of nuclear power plant - a smaller, scalable pressurized water reactor with passive safety features, allowing shutdown and self - cooling, with no operator action, no AC or DC power, and no external water.

Babcock & Wilcox — one - time builder of large pressurized water reactors as well as smaller ones suitable for the submarines of the U.S. Navy — would like to shrink those down to just 180 megawatts.

The prospects for a nuclear power revival are no better in the U.S.. Although the technology has never been cheap, cost overruns and delays are plaguing the handful of next - generation pressurized water reactors currently being built, the first since Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

Mini-nuke A modern pressurized water reactor, like the two being built in Georgia, can pump out more than 1,000 megawatts worth of power using the heat from fission to boil water to spin a turbine.

Southern Co. and its partners have dug 27.5 meters down into that soil to reach bedrock and are now filling up the hole to provide a stable foundation for what is likely to be the first of a new generation of reactors in the U.S.: two new AP - 1000 models at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant that stand next to two older pressurized water reactors, which came online in the 1980s.

So why choose the AP1000 reactor when four other next - gen reactors — the economic simplified boiling water reactor, the EPR (for European pressurized reactor), the U.S. advanced pressurized water reactor, and the advanced boiling - water reactor — are going through the same design certification process?

Of the 26 new reactor applications under current NRC scrutiny, 14 are for Westinghouse Electric Co.'s AP1000 pressurized water reactor.

Methods: The researchers first evaluated corrosion and cracking in alloy 690 exposed to simulated pressurized water reactor primary water at temperatures from 325 to 360 degrees C.

The NuScale SMR consists of integrated pressurized water reactor modules, designed on the light water reactor technology that has safely operated worldwide for the past 70 years.

All of Japan's 24 pressurized water reactor utilize MELCO's I&C technology.

This environment, designated the Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA), incorporates science - based models, state - of - the - art numerical methods, modern computational science and engineering practices, and uncertainty quantification (UQ) and validation against data from operating pressurized water reactors (PWRs), single - effect experiments, and integral tests.

Since 2002, United States Department of Energy has down blended, (processed to convert HEU to a form usable in Pressurized Water Reactors) over 22 metric tons of surplus enriched uranium resulting in enough energy to power every home in the United States for 50 days or every home in South Carolina for nine years.

Most pressurized water reactors (PWR, the type I worked on in the U.S. Navy) use water around the fuel rods to both and transfer heat away fro the fuel to do work and reflect neutrons back into the fuel rods.

* The MH - 1A Sturgis floating nuclear power plant, a 45 - MW pressurized water reactor, was the first floating nuclear plant to be built (and the last nuclear power plant built and operated by the U.S. Army).

The company pointed out that its own mPower reactor is based on pressurized water reactor technology using standard enriched uranium as fuel, whereas TerraPower's TWR «is a larger reactor based on Generation IV technology and designed to use depleted uranium as fuel.»

US - APWR: The Mitsubishi Heavy Industry US - APWR design is a 1,700 MWe pressurized water reactor being licensed and built in Japan.

All six cores are pressurized water reactors with similar design, and each can generate up to 2.9 - gigawatt thermal power.

Earlier this week GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy announced that the company intended to offer refuelling services to pressurized water reactors as well as for BWRs.

The design is Westinghouse's take on a third - generation pressurized water reactor, and each one produces about 1,000 megawatts of electricity.

One plant (Sizewell B in Suffolk) is a pressurized water reactor but it is much more modern, having been completed in 1995, and Weightman declares it «one of the most advanced PWRs operating in the world.»

These units, pressurized water reactors, were the first new facilities to break ground in the U.S. in about 30 years.

Typically, pressurized water reactors» containment systems consist of a concrete dome reinforced with steel to prevent radioactive fumes from escaping during a nuclear accident.

Ikata 1 - a 538 MWe (net) pressurized water reactor - began commercial operation in September 1977.

The Holtec SMR - 160 is a pressurized water reactor designed by Holtec's subsidiary SMR, LLC which employs gravity to cool the core under all operating and accident modes.

Although SMR - 160 is a pressurized water reactor, it does not use boric acid in its reactor coolant system.

SMR - 160 is a conventional fission reactor, using water as the cooling medium, and is designed with six decades of world - wide industrial operating experience with pressurized water reactors.

By the time he was 40, Weinberg had co-invented the pressurized water reactor, the boiling water reactor, the sodium fast reactor, the homogeneous reactor, the molten salt reactor, the atomic bomb — and the American Nuclear Society.

Two cooling towers and pressurized water reactors of the nuclear power plant of French supplier Electricite de France (EDF) are pictured in Cattenom, eastern France, January 27, 2016.

Although the Greifswald nuclear power plant's five small Soviet PWRs (pressurized water reactors) totaling 2 GWe have not been included, this model of reactor remains in successful operation in Europe and Russia in several variants.

About two - thirds of operating US reactors are pressurized water reactors (PWRs); the rest are boiling water reactors (BWRs).

Indeed, the Chattanooga factory made the vessels for boiling water reactors like FitzPatrick and Pilgrim, for Westinghouse pressurized water reactors like Diablo Canyon and Indian Point and for Combustion Engineering pressurized water reactors like Palo Verde and Waterford.