Sentences with phrase «reactor built with»

Still, one could argue that the clandestine and military nature of the Al - Kibar reactor, its proximity to Israel, and the hostility between Israel and Syria rendered Israel's «last opportunity to stop an existential threat» argument more plausible now than when it invoked it to justify the destruction of Osirak — a distant, declared, reactor built with French assistance.

They also list the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists in Iran and elsewhere, the Stuxnet cyber-attack on Iranian computer systems related to the Islamic republic's nuclear program, and the 2007 destruction of a Syrian plutonium reactor built with the help of Iran and North Korea.

Not exact matches

The Bellefonte plant came with two partially built nuclear reactors, one that's about 55 percent complete and another about 35 percent finished.

In 2007, Israeli airstrikes took out Syria's research reactor (which it had built with the aid of North Korea).

CEOs are somewhat concerned that the Canadian nuclear industry will be negatively affected, saying that risks associated with nuclear energy will cause buyers to favour suppliers who have built reactors more recently.

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.

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.

Now NRG Energy, based in Princeton, New Jersey, is sticking its neck out with plans to build two new nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project facility near Bay City.

For example, an aerial robot equipped with a radiation detector, 3D camera system, and temperature and humidity sensors could inspect something like the Fukushima nuclear reactors, where the radiation level is too high for humans, or fly into tight crawlspaces such as mines or collapsed buildings.

We are also building a facility in Newport News, Va., to manufacture heavy reactor components through a partnership with Northrop Grumman.

They built a huge nuclear industry, producing both bombs and electricity with unsafe reactors and sent the waste to leaky dumps and accident - prone reprocessing plants.

But the complex structure of the reactor buildings» ground and upper floors, with many staircases and thick concrete walls, challenged robot mobility and wireless communications.

At today's prices for the two AP - 1000 reactors being built in Georgia, such an investment would cost $ 7 trillion, although that total bill might shrink with an order of that magnitude.

As a consolation to Japan, the E.U. will place some of its industrial contracts with Japanese companies so that Japan will end up building 20 % of the reactor.

In addition to charging its current customers $ 3.73 a month for the construction of this reactor until costs are recovered Southern received an $ 8.3 - billion loan guarantee from the federal government to help make up the cost difference compared with building a natural gas — fired turbine, for example.

And it was Fermi's idea of doing the pile which, of course, was the way we got plutonium, and that's most amazing that we went critical in, [it] was like in December of 1942, I think, it was the seventh, and two years later we were getting plutonium at Los Alamos to build a bomb, most amazing; and of course that reactor there was made with unenriched uranium, so you don't need enriched uranium to have a nuclear reactor and to make plutonium, but Fermi clearly he was known as the Pope: infallible, no question about 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.

The U.K. is considering a plan to build two of General Electric's PRISM fast reactors, the latest in a series of fast - reactor designs that for several decades have attempted with mixed success to handle plutonium and other radioactive waste from nuclear power.

Once enough reactors were built to meet demand, the construction sector went into stasis, with decades elapsing between builds and upgrades.

And gas plants can be built in small units in only three or four years, as compared with six or eight for mammoth reactors.

But potential reactor builders sense that the world has changed enough to consider going back into business, with designs that are optimized and standardized versions of what they built more than 20 years ago.

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.

Build before Memory Runs Out Although individual consumer actions can help, major changes in carbon output will likely require better electricity - generation technologies, retiring much of the coal - fired capacity and replacing it with the most cost - effective combination of modern reactors, renewables and even clean coal.

A fusion power demonstration reactor to be built in the 2030s in collaboration with the DoE's Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, represents a step toward commercial use

The chemists built a detector with modified potato tissue supported in a reactor vessel containing a fluorescent marker.

Three years ago, the agency's Game Changing Development program backed Kilopower, with the goal of building and testing a small fission reactor by Sept. 30, 2017, the end of the current fiscal year.

With help from NuHub and the state we hope to establish a local manufacturing facility for building reactor components in South Carolina that replicates our existing fabrication capabilities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida.»

These efforts include installing a 30 - ton detector system (with shielding) in an operating research reactor building as close as 21 feet to the reactor core without affecting HFIR's primary missions of neutron scattering research, isotope production and testing of irradiated materials.

This «bioartifical liver support», where a patient's blood passes through a small reactor seeded with pig liver cells, removes waste chemicals from the blood that would otherwise build up inside the patient and eventually lead to coma and death.

First, by basing the NuScale design on light - water reactor technology, we are able to build on the vast global experience with this technology, including material performance, water chemistry, transient behaviors, etc..

With support from a roster of investors that includes Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates and Charles River Ventures, TerraPower is refining its TWR design and expects to build a test reactor within the next decade.

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To my mind, the Fukushima failure also builds the case for the kind of push under way in China, which is moving forward with construction of the first two of a new generation of nuclear reactors — cooled by helium, not water, and designed in a way that can not produce a meltdown of the fuel.

Developed nations are — just barely — able to build and maintain these devices with an acceptable (assuming the complete destruction of reactor units at Three Mile Island and Chernoybl are ok) level of catastrophic accidents using the quality of human resources available in the U.S. and Russia, two relatively advanced nations.

· Demand for nuclear energy globally is low, and the new reactors being built may not keep up with the closure of nuclear plants around the world.

While it may seem counterintuitive to go with something that is older rather than newer, the historical record is clear: nuclear reactors become safer the more experience we have of building, operating and regulating them.

Finishing the reactors would be more expensive than building new gas - fired power plants, but averaged over the 60 - year service life, the costs will be right in line with renewables, about $ 60 to $ 80 per MWh — except nuclear produces reliably, where wind energy is fundamentally unreliable and chaotic.

Nuclear defenders are calling for keeping things in perspective — fossil fuels, they point out, have many more costs and risks associated with them than nuclear power; and newer generation reactor designs are far safer than those built in Japan many decades ago (a number of US plants from the same era have the same or similar designs).

Thorium reactors could be a game changer here for power generation and heat with serviced buildings; but we'll still a long way off of good electrical storage in transportation — aircraft, trucks, ships, and cars will continue to burn oil products until that eureka moment)

The fuel is reprocessed in the same building with good fuel put back in the reactor, medical and industrial isotopes removed, and what is left is only radioactive for 300 years instead of 80,000 +.

[38] Bill Johnson, CEO of Progress Energy, one of the utilities filing for a reactor construction license but with no plans to actually build, said in in the same issue, «Nuclear can't compete today.»

Though modern reactors are operationally 10 to 100 times safer than the designs at Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, he says, nuclear power plants were not built with terrorists in mind.

They clearly can not replace the electricity from their nuclear reactors with electricity from wind and solar, so they are building new coal - fired power plants and importing coal from the US: that's the «smutzig» part.

Rather than creating new solutions, efforts to restart the U.S. nuclear industry have mostly focused on encouraging utilities to build the next generation of large, light - water reactors with loan guarantees and various other subsidies and regulatory fixes.

Russia is planning to construct a larger BN - 1200 fast reactor power unit at Beloyarsk to start up by 2020, while cooperating with China to build two BN - 800 units there.

Instead of obsession with building a better solar mousetrap, for much lower cost and resource use the energy needs of now and far into the future could be met easily by Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR).

Certainly the experience with some of the nuclear power plants being built now does not give rise to confidence in the claims for the theoretical Generation IV nuclear reactors.

If the UK manages to get about 16 new large reactors built by the end of the 2020's (which the Climate Change Committee described as «not challenging»), that combined with on and off shore wind may well see a genuinely low emission electricity supply by 2030.

If the climate situation really was as dire as the alarmists suggest, why hasn't the government declared a state of emergency and started building new nuclear reactors as quickly as possible (cause a few Chernobyls a year would be an acceptable price to stop climate catastrophe), with any anti-nuclear protesters who try to stop them being simply gunned down?