Sentences with phrase «reactor designers»

This resilience reflects the caution of reactor designers, who build a margin of error into their seismic engineering.

Despite the severity of the accident at the Fukushima I plant, nuclear reactor designers don't expect the same type of backlash against the nuclear industry as occurred a generation ago after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

Testing that has been completed on components of the system, dubbed KRUSTY, has been «greatly successful — the models have predicted very well what has happened, and operations have gone smoothly,» said Dave Poston, chief reactor designer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Nuclear reactor designers say that the reactors being built or planned today are quite different — and they say much safer — than those that are still smoldering in Japan.

So the first challenge for reactor designers is how to confine the plasma without touching it.

Previous attempts to create long - lasting FRCs were plagued by the twin demons that torment all fusion reactor designers.

In order to increase the number of thermal neutrons, thermal neutron reactor designers choose materials which slow down the fast neutrons in order to turn them into useful thermal neutrons.

Even the movie's two reactor designers distort truth.

The NRC's July 1986 «Statement of Policy for Regulation of Advanced Nuclear Power Plants» encourages reactor designers to discuss licensing issues with the agency before submitting a full license application.

The academic - reactor designer is a dilettante.