Sentences with phrase «reactor concepts»

«As conventional methanation processes reach their limits at this point, we have developed a new reactor concept,» Bajohr says.

They also argue NE should establish a transparent process for evaluating the various advanced reactor concepts it supports across key performance requirements, in order to enable robust debate on the economic, safety, security and waste implications of various designs.

Peter Lyons, who heads the Energy Department's nuclear energy program, told a House Appropriations subcommittee in March that DOE is seeking funding for two modular reactor programs in fiscal 2012: $ 67 million for a licensing demonstration project and $ 30 million for a review of advanced modular reactor concepts.

Toshiba, Hyperion Power Generation, Sandia National Labs, and TerraPower — a company underwritten in part by Bill Gates — also have downsized nuclear reactor concepts in the works.

The basic reactor concept and its associated elements are based on well - tested and proven principles developed over decades of research at MIT and around the world, the team says.

Scientists at the German Aerospace Center have tested a solar reactor concept known as CONTISOL, which also contains a thermal energy storage system to allow it to run day or night.

Fast reactor concepts are typically classified by their coolant — i.e., sodium - cooled fast reactor (SFR); lead - or lead - bismuth eutectic (LBE)- cooled fast reactor (LFT); and gas - cooled fast reactor (GFR).

The reactor concept calls for heated salts that act as both a coolant and a medium for fission reactions.

«It's very easy to create wild theories that do not violate what we observe,» says Stevenson, who has outspokenly opposed Herndon's reactor concept.

Nuclear engineers have also investigated several other fast - reactor concepts, some burning metallic uranium or plutonium fuels, others using oxide fuels.

«PRISM was a reactor concept developed, originally by Argonne National Laboratory in the 1980s and it is better known in the environmental press as the integral fast reactor,» Loewen explains, embarking on a short history and science lesson.