Sentences with phrase «reactor components»

Aluminum is currently used in not only research reactor components but also nuclear batteries and spacecraft, and it has been proposed as material for storage containers for nuclear waste.

Experimental data will allow them to verify the accuracy of computer models that can predict how nuclear reactor components corrode and crack during long - time service.

In November, Jim Malatras, Cuomo's director of state operations, asked the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to oppose the plant's relicensing, citing «embrittled reactor pressure vessels and fatigued metals on key reactor components» and saying there was no safety evacuation route for the 20 million people living within 50 miles of it in case of a serious accident.

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

But the environment inside nuclear plants is like nothing else, subjecting reactor components to intense heat, stress, vibration and neutron bombardment that could potentially cause hidden weaknesses in reactors, pipes, joints, wiring and other components.

PRISM reactor components and fuel fabrication techniques are based on decades of testing and analysis.

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.»

By eliminating boron and other corrosive material typically used in large nuclear plants and other SMRs, the propensity for fouling and reactor components stress corrosion cracking has been dramatically reduced.

Terrestrial's IMSR integrates the primary reactor components, including primary heat exchangers, to a secondary clean salt circuit, in a sealed and replaceable core vessel.

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.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- A subsidiary of General Electric has agreed to pay $ 2.7 million to resolve claims its employees made false statements to the U.S. Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission about a reactor component.

Staff must consult with the agencies run by each partner that will order the reactor components to be made, and with the companies that will make them.

And technological advances mean that new nuclear reactor components can increasingly be mass - manufactured in factories and shipped around the world for re-assembly on - site.

Halliburton, the notorious U.S. energy company, sold key nuclear - reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as recently as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions, journalist Jason Leopold reported on Globalresearch.ca, the Web site of a Canadian research group.