Sentences with phrase «reactor designed by»

A fourth generation reactor designed by GEH, PRISM incorporates the groundbreaking features of the Argonne Laboratory's project, representing a technological leap that could power the UK or similar countries for hundreds of years with used nuclear fuel that is already on hand.

The SMR - 160 is a single loop, 160 MWe pressurized light water reactor designed by Holtec to be «walk away» safe and commercially competitive.

Pressurized - water reactors designed by Westinghouse — such those that employ pressurized water and heat exchangers to produce power, unlike the boiling - water variety — face similar challenges.

Deal had worked at Los Alamos as an entrepreneur in residence, and he knew of an advanced reactor design by the lab's Otis Peterson that he thought would be perfect to commercialize.

The nuclear plant has two three - loop pressurized water reactors designed by Westinghouse.

Not exact matches

It's been 32 years since the Chernobyl disaster, a nuclear reactor meltdown caused by a mix of design flaws and human error.

From a tiny terrace outside the apartment's living room, the Chernobyl reactor is visible in the distance, its blocky shape now covered over by the sarcophagus, the concrete coffin designed to contain its radioactive dangers.

A Chernobyl can not happen here — a survey by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) established that our reactors are free of the design flaws that permitted Chernobyl to explode, and in the United States a typical reactor core is surrounded by multiple enclosures to block the escape of radioactive material even in the event of an accident.

There are some 50 modular designs being developed globally, and while many are traditional light water reactors, which use water to cool the reactor core, others gain efficiency by using coolants such as gas, which allow reactors to reach higher temperatures.

This is one of many safety issues currently being investigated by his team at the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation in Bootle, as it considers licensing new, supposedly safer, reactor designs from companies like Japanese - owned Westinghouse Electric and French - owned Areva.

Christos G. Takoudis's interdisciplinary team plans to wield a unique atomic layer deposition / chemical vapor deposition (ALD / CVD) hybrid reactor that can lay down novel thin - film cell materials and structures that run cooler by design.

The NRC has begun discussions with Babcock & Wilcox Co. about its proposed mPower modular reactor design that is currently under consideration by the Tennessee Valley Authority for construction at TVA's Clinch River site in Tennessee.

So far, there is no sign that the government's nuclear gatekeeper, NRC, is wowed by the small - reactor designs.

Sanders is working on a reactor design hatched by the lab with an undisclosed private partner.

After all, the first reactor built at Qinshan back in 1990 — the first reactor ever designed and constructed entirely by the Chinese — had to be torn down and rebuilt because of faults in the foundation as well as defects in the welding of the steel vessel that contained the reactor itself.

That has also allowed the Chinese to shift more and more of the supply of components for future AP - 1000 reactors to China itself — much as South Korea or France has done before by incorporating earlier Westinghouse designs.

As the recent meltdown in Fukushima showed, the design of these reactors» systems, such as the donut - shaped «suppression pool» of water meant to cool the reactor in a crisis, showed flaws — flaws identified by regulators decades ago.

«However, despite repeated commitments to non-light water reactors, and substantial investments by NE (more than $ 2 billion of public money), no such design is remotely ready for deployment today.»

FIERCE criticism is being directed from all quarters at the proposal by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to finish building two Soviet - designed nuclear reactors in Slovakia.

The Prime Minister replied that the proposed investment of about # 177 million to complete the construction of two 440 - megawatt Soviet - designed VVER 213 reactors at Mochovce will be the first nuclear project financed by an international financial institution.

If the license is issued, the first new design reactor in the U.S. in decades would start delivering 1,100 megawatts of power by 2016.

However, four decades of analysis and experience have demonstrated that reactor core - damage risks are dominated by «beyond - design - basis events,» the report says.

More exotic designs remain on the horizon, such as reactors powered by thorium fuel, but the AP1000 and other more conventional designs are important for one simple reason: they are being built.

Weapons - grade fuel in a nuclear reactor emits a steady rate of telltale antineutrinos that could be detected by a newly designed portable device

The CAREM design was developed by Invap under contract with the CNEA as a simplified modular pressurised water reactor (PWR) with integral steam generators.

The PRISM design has benefited from the operating experience of EBR - II, an integral fast reactor prototype, which was developed by Argonne National Laboratory, and operated for more than 30 years at the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls, Idaho.

The key benefit of the RBT reactors is their simple and effective design that makes it possible to set up the required irradiation conditions by changing the core size and arrangement; the experimental channels are available as well.

NAC was responsible for the design, fabrication and delivery of specialized packaging containers and equipment to clean, canisterize, and stabilize (by vacuum drying and thermal conditioning) 8,000 spent fuel rods from the research reactor in Nyongbyon, North Korea.

Since the end of the Soviet Union, the U.S. and Russia have been engaged in a nuclear non-proliferation effort designed to reduce the world's supply of HEU by diluting, or «blending down,» the weapons grade material into reactor grade material, sometimes called «turning megatons into megawatts.»

The NRC's final report approving the reactor design is expected to be completed by September 2020.

Response: Informed by over six decades of lessons learned from reactor operations, SMR - 160 is designed to be an extremely safe power plant.

Response: Unlike currently operating nuclear reactors, SMR - 160 has been designed to store the used fuel produced over the entire operating lifetime of the plant in subterranean cavities (formally known as Holtec's HI - STORM UMAX system licensed by the USNRC), occupying a small parcel of land in the plant's backyard.

Szilard had many ideas about the reactor design, and it was at this time that he actually thought up a name to the «nuclear breeder reactor,» which is supposed to make more fuel than it consumes by bombarding uranium - 238, which does not fission, turning it into plutonium - 239, which does fission.

A reactor physicist by education and training, Mr. Marcille became the GE - Nuclear Chief Technologist and responsible engineer for control blades, nuclear fuel design and performance, spent fuel criticality and thermal management, nuclear cross-sections and deterministic and stochastic methods.

GEH and ARC Nuclear have each developed advanced reactor designs based on the EBR - II, an integral sodium - cooled fast reactor prototype which was developed by Argonne National Laboratory and operated successfully for more than 30 years at Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Dominion then began soliciting designs from other reactor vendors — including designs already certified by the NRC.

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..

Separately, the newer rules from the NRC on advanced reactors standardize the licensing, providing early site approval, certification of plant designs by rule (avoiding the lengthy public hearings for each plant), and simultaneous issuances of both a construction permit and an operating license (a «one - stop licensing called «combined licenses».)

(The suitability is decided simply by the issuance of the early site permit and the reactor design issues decided by the existing certification.)

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.

The out - of - control status of the 6 Fukushima nuclear reactors and their stored spent fuel rods is a textbook example of «Don't Know Squared — It's What You Don't Know You Don't Know» that can bring down any system designed by humanity.

The proposed reactor, using a tokamak (donut - shaped) geometry that is widely studied, is described in a paper in the journal Fusion Engineering and Design, co-authored by Whyte, Ph.D. candidate Brandon Sorbom, and 11 others at MIT.

With the AP - 1000, the idea was that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) would license the plant and reactor design just once, giving its owners the security of moving forward with construction plans without fear that their design would be rejected by NRC.

Energy Probe has also been successful in stopping the export of Canada's Candu nuclear reactors, most of which have been sought by states with nuclear weapons aspirations — the Candu design lends itself to surreptitious diversion of spent fuel suitable for reprocessing into weapons grade material.

Specifically something called walkaway safety where by design reactors can be completely abandoned and without any human intervention they will safely shutdown.

These reactors are melt down proof because by design, they are already molten.

The Hualong One reactor design has passed its design certification by the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) and has now been launched with some fanfare by the National Energy Administration (NEA) which brought it about by high - level edict.

Congress should establish financial incentives for power plant owners to purchase safer reactor designs and make safety upgrades by increasing the liability of the nuclear industry for a nuclear accident.

Now, a group of scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) supported by the Aerosol and Particle Technology Laboratory of CPERI / CERTH Greece have built and tested a new solar reactor design that includes storage so it can provide round - the - clock heat like the current fossil - fired method, but without the emissions.

Friends of the Earth's nuclear campaign works to reduce risks for people and the environment by supporting efforts to close existing nuclear reactors and fighting proposals to design and build new reactors that use federal funds to underwrite such initiatives.