Sentences with phrase «reactor construction»

Low oil prices make nuclear energy less appealing in the near term and could slow reactor construction.

In the attempt to put a stop to further reactor construction, the antinuclear movement may be tempted to constipate the system — to plug up the radwaste outlet for the nuclear industry — hoping thereby to force a shutdown of electrical power generation.

PRISM has a number of benefits for managing plutonium — including reduced time to disposition the UK stockpile due to greater incorporation of plutonium in the fuel, and a simplified fuel manufacturing and reactor construction process — all of which reduce the costs of implementation.

The Authority would also license and lease in the same manner as described for research reactors the construction and operation of reactors for making radioactive materials.

Recently Rosatom approved Brest - OD - 300 reactor construction with UN fuel and lead cooling cycle.

First, even if we were to impose an immediate moratorium on all nuclear reactor construction and cease operating all existing reactors, the problem of radwaste disposal would still be before us.

While further understanding of the approach to implementation and commercialisation was needed according to the NDA, PRISM offers a «simplified fuel manufacturing process and reactor construction, and the ability to utilise the full inventory of plutonium which should consequently reduce the overall costs», which with a guaranteed market for PRISM's by - product — electricity — demonstrates PRISM has several distinct advantages over alternative options.

[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.»