Sentences with phrase «reactor builds on»

The PRISM reactor builds on this sodium - cooled reactor experience first pioneered in 1951 to turn the binding energy of the atom into electrical energy.

At the same time they hired Motojima to get the reactor built on time and within budget.

Not exact matches

May stunned investors by putting Hinkley on hold in July, just hours before a deal was to be signed, saying she needed time to assess the project under which French utility firm EDF would build Britain's first new nuclear reactor in decades, backed by $ 8 billion of Chinese cash.

Our technology is based on a variant of chemical vapor deposition, which builds the diamond lattice atom by atom in a reactor that creates a plasma akin to the outer core of the sun.

Based on previous research and work in the field of plasma physics, the two former Creo laser printing employees believe they can build a reactor to fuse hydrogen atoms together by pneumatically - driven pistons and produce enormous increases in energy.

India's foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment on Russia's ties with Pakistan, but has previously said that its own relations with Moscow have stood the test of time, and that the two nations are building up defense and energy relations, including collaboration on nuclear reactors in India.

The former national - security adviser worked on, but allegedly failed to disclose, a plan to work with Russia to build nuclear reactors in the Middle East.

The Government of Canada could build on this momentum to develop an expanded MoU on civilian nuclear technology co-operation that includes research in pressurized heavy water reactor technology, nuclear medicine and other areas discussed by the prime ministers.

Essentially, these fusion reactors form energy just as stars do; we are, in that sense, building stars on earth.

Not a single nuclear reactor in this country has ever been built on time or to budget.

By March 14, hydrogen gas explosions captured live on television had blown out the walls and roofs of the Unit 1 and 3 reactor buildings.

The issue arose last week at a meeting between Westinghouse and NRC staff that included issues of emergency stresses on the reactor shield building, such as during an earthquake, said NRC spokesman Scott Burnell.

Does anybody honestly think that whether Tehran or Pyongyang produces atomic bombs depends on how many reactors the United States decides to build in the next 10 to 20 years?

While that scenario would not require Japan to go cold turkey on nuclear power, it would rule out building new reactors for the immediate future and cloud prospects for R&D.

That means that the rest of the world — particularly China, which is building almost every type of reactor on offer, and Russia — may well inherit the promise and peril of nuclear power, whether small or large.

Their confidence rests on the fact that the reactors being built or planned today are quite different — and they say much safer — than those that are still smoldering in Japan.

A test facility near Lynchburg, Va. is up and running to ensure that what looks good on paper will also work in practice and B&W already has one potential customer in the U.S. — the TVA — expressing an interest in building as many as six of the small modular reactors at its Clinch River site, former home of a failed effort to build a fast breeder reactor in the 1970s.

If the «nuclear renaissance» is not dead, it appeared in a coma for most of the country following the collapse of Constellation Energy's plan to build a third reactor on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay shore, energy officials said this weekend.

Mariotte said utilities that want to build new reactors have known for 10 years that Barnwell would close but failed to include on - site storage or options for handling low - level radioactive waste in their license applications.

And DOE was told not to spend more than $ 115 million on the U.S. contribution to ITER, the international fusion reactor being built in France, until ITER officials present a new schedule for the troubled project.

But is it necessary for every aspect of nuclear power to be re-examined by a cascade of public inquiries every time the nuclear industry proposes to build a reactor, especially when it is virtually identical to its predecessor and on a site which has already been licensed?

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.

Progress was stalled during 2004 and early 2005 as the partners argued over where to build the reactor, but in June 2005, the parties agreed on Cadarache, France, 60 kilometers from Marseilles (ScienceNOW, 28 June 2005).

Appropriators in the Senate, meanwhile, endorsed plans for a center dedicated to the modeling and simulation of nuclear reactors, and gave qualified support to two more: A hub to make fuels directly from sunlight and another on energy - efficient buildings.

Water is being deliberately circulated through each reactor every day to cool the fuel within — but the plant lies on a slope, and water from precipitation keeps flowing into the buildings as well.

The leader of a proposed compact fusion reactor project says that Lockheed Martin's decision to lift the lid on its secret effort is an attempt to build a scientific team and find partners.

As of 10 P.M. local time on Thursday, the JAIF listed the following status of the six Fukushima Daiichi reactors: • Buildings around reactor Nos. 1, 3 and 4 were «severely damaged»; the building housing reactor No. 2 was «slightly damaged»; • Cooling was not working for reactor Nos. 1, or 3; • Water levels were covering more than half of the fuel in reactor No. 2; reactor Nos. 1 and 3 water levels were covering only about half of the fuel.

China has or is building heavy - water reactors from Canada, «evolutionary» pressurized - water reactors from France, pebble - bed reactors tested in South Africa, and even is working on reactors that would use molten salt for cooling and thorium for fuel.

Yet, even if every planned reactor in China was to be built, the country would still rely on burning coal for more than 50 percent of its electric power — and the Chinese nuclear reactors would provide at best roughly the same amount of energy to the developing nation as does the existing U.S. fleet.

Klein said that the NRC's initial approach to the danger to reactor wiring in a fire would have imposed impossible conditions on some reactor operators, which have no practical way, for example, of relocating built - in wire channels to create more separation between wiring networks and backups.

Images aired on TV showed cranes lifting two of the 1535 fuel units from the No 4 reactor building.

JAEA engineers are also designing a next - generation fast reactor, but there has been no decision on actually building it.

The French experimented with their own designs but settled on an American reactor and rapidly built them throughout the country, which in turn provided some of the cheapest electricity in the European Union while maintaining an admirable safety record.

Acting on two (of 12) spending bills under its jurisdiction, the panel agreed on Wednesday to increase the president's request for fusion research at the Department of Energy by a total of $ 76 million, including $ 48 million more for the domestic program and $ 28 million for the U.S. contribution to the ITER fusion reactor being built in France.

More exotic designs remain on the horizon, such as reactors powered by thorium fuel, but the AP1000 and other more conventional designs are important for one simple reason: they are being built.

And work has resumed on a half - built reactor, Watts Bar 2 in Tennessee.

American builders could base their estimates on reactors built recently in Asia, but no one really knows how a project in Texas or Florida might compare with one in Japan or South Korea.

A new proposal, detailed recently on the preprint server arXiv.org, describes how to build an antineutrino detector that could, over the course of a few months, determine if weapons - grade fuel is being used in a reactor.

Since then, Wallace has intermittently made new announcements about incremental progress toward building a new reactor about 45 miles south of Washington, which could be the first U.S. nuclear plant put on order and built since 1973.

Last week, defense firm Lockheed Martin revealed a few details on a secret project: building a «compact fusion reactor,» a working reactor about 1/10 the size of current efforts.

Co-founder Mark Massie said building modern nuclear reactors on first - generation technology is analogous to building airliners out of the same wood and cloth the Wright brothers used in their prototype (ClimateWire, Dec. 15, 2014).

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has pledged to build a commercial fusion reactor based on new superconducting magnets.

We were building it to drop on Germany because we thought that the Germans were building a reactor and that they would eventually drop»em on us and so we wanted to get there first.

And that is exactly what GEH has done to create PRISM, building on the EBR - II reactor, which operated successfully for 30 years.

Taishan 1 and 2 are the first two reactors based on the EPR design to be built in China.

Prism is a sodium - cooled fast neutron reactor design built on more than 30 years of development work, benefitting from the operating experience of the EBR - II prototype integral fast reactor which operated at the USA's Idaho National Laboratory — formerly Argonne National Laboratory — from 1963 to 1994.

Providing a licensed nuclear site on which several nuclear reactors have been built and operated.

Building on Holtec's vast experience of delivering cutting - edge technologies to the global nuclear energy industry over the past 25 years, SMR is committed to delivering to the world a safe, secure, reliable, clean and affordable small modular nuclear reactor — SMR - 160.

In carrying on such operations, presumably those desiring to build such research reactors would submit their designs to the Authority both for approval and for advice as to improvements, and would obtain a license to build such a reactor and lease of the denatured fissionable material needed for it.