Sentences with phrase «reactor built during»
Beyond Idaho, I cruised into Washington, visiting Spokane and the Coulee dam, following the highways through more spectacular terrain down to the Hanford Reach National Monument, site of a secret nuclear reactor built during World War 2.
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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.
As NRC staff noted during the Fukushima emergency, when there was concern that the spent - fuel pool at Unit 4 may have lost its cooling water as well as been damaged by the reactor building explosion, adding cold water to already hot fuel can create a problem in its own right.
As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor.
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).
For those reactor plants, the tritium builds up in their Spent Fuel Pools during refueling operations.
During a brief building period that lasted less than 40 years, electricity production from nuclear reactors in the U.S. increased from zero to 800 billion kilowatt - hours per year.
A 2009 report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace concluded that nuclear power would not «make a big difference in reducing carbon emissions in the next two decades, when the biggest reductions will have the most impact,» because the industry could not build enough reactors during that time.
This ruling allows regulators to «avoid careful consideration of serious environmental and human health impacts associated with a plan to build new nuclear reactors at the Darlington site on Lake Ontario — including the consequences of a major nuclear accident — during the project's environmental assessment.»