Sentences with phrase «pressurized water reactors as»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Results: Important pressurized water nuclear reactor components are being made from a nickel - base alloy that contains twice the amount of chromium as the material previously used.

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.

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.

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.»

Flouride salts hold heat almost as well as water, so make for good coolant, but remain liquid up to 1300C, so unlike water - cooled reactors can operate at higher temperatures, for better efficiency, and without pressurized vessels, making them both safer and less costly.