"Reactor designs" refers to the plans or blueprints for creating a specialized type of device or structure called a reactor.
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This dramatic improvement leads to a cascade of potential improvements
in reactor design.
It should be possible to reduce the cost of nuclear power via modular
standard reactor design, but governments need to provide a regulatory environment that supports timely construction of approved designs.
This in - depth study provides nuclear reactor technology assessments and overall evaluations of the major
reactor designs currently available in the world.
We thought the technology would be the easy part, but it took three dozen engineers, three years, and tens of thousands of plasma -
reactor design simulations to get it right.
More generally, the authors talk about the possibility that future technologies will
provide reactor designs that are safer, more secure, and less of a proliferation risk.
It should be possible to reduce the cost of nuclear power via modular
standard reactor design, but governments need to provide a regulatory environment that supports timely construction of approved designs.
«The PRISM reactor offered by GE - Hitachi [is] a fourth - generation
fast reactor design which can generate zero - carbon power by consuming our plutonium and spent fuel stockpiles, thereby tackling both the nuclear waste and climate problems simultaneously; it is currently under consideration by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority as a promising alternative to Areva's MOX fuel for plutonium management.»
The SMR - 160 is a single loop, 160 MWe pressurized light water
reactor designed by Holtec to be «walk away» safe and commercially competitive.
PRISM is a high energy neutron (fast)
reactor design which uses a series of proven, safe and mature technologies to provide an innovative solution to disposition plutonium stockpiles and harness the remaining energy potential of used nuclear fuel and surplus plutonium.
CCS has not yet been commercially deployed at any centralized power plant; the existing nuclear industry, based
on reactor designs more than a half - century old and facing renewed public concerns of safety, is in a period of retrenchment, not expansion; and existing solar, wind, biomass, and energy storage systems are not yet mature enough to provide affordable baseload power at terawatt scale.
Newly
approved reactor designs could reduce global warming and fossil - fuel dependence, but utilities are grappling with whether better nukes make market sense
The U.K. is grappling with how to get rid of weapons - grade plutonium and may employ a
novel reactor design to consume it
Since safety and security improvements are critical to establishing the viability of nuclear power as an energy source for the future, the nuclear industry and the DOE should focus on developing
safer reactor designs rather than weakening regulations.
«The combination of liability relief, fast - tracking of the regulatory approval process, and the introduction of
standardized reactor designs in the energy legislation passed last summer make it likely that we are going to have some new nuclear power plants,» he says.
A possible strategy for freeing nuclear power from its current impasse would be built around a new generation of lower - power, centrally fabricated nuclear
reactors designed for inherent safety
Some foreign
reactor designs use coolants other than water to carry the heat of fission away from the core.
Our reactor research and development experience includes open - pool, boiling, pressurized, supercritical water - cooled, and organically -
cooled reactor designs.
If there's $ 5 billion for Elon Musk to build a private space company, there should at least as much to demonstrate new, advanced
reactor designs including the SMR and MSR, and push harder on accident tolerant fuels.
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.
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) is to conduct pre-licensing vendor design reviews (VDRs) of small
modular reactor designs from NuScale Power and Westinghouse Electric Company.
When you combine the largest radioactive inventory of all current
reactor designs together with the largest stored energy in highly reactive sodium metal coolant, you have the potential for a LARGE accident.
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.
Standard
reactor design helps fuel a boom After testing their first nuclear weapon in 1960, the French turned their infrastructure for enriching and processing uranium toward energy.
Both GEH and ARC have
developed reactor designs based on the Experimental Breeder Reactor - II (EBR - II) integral sodium - cooled fast reactor prototype at the Argonne National Laboratory.
While there are more than 90 advanced nuclear technology and small modular
reactor designs under various stages of development, GEH and ARC Nuclear view sodium fast reactors as being the most mature advanced reactor technology with decades of real operating experience from more than 20 previous reactors.
«Breed and burn» process TerraPower's design and other once -
through reactor designs use a «breed» and «burn» process.
We have also demonstrated that molten salt
reactor designs work and are much safer than today's light water reactors.
However, NE has mostly invested in one fuel type while exploring
multiple reactor designs, most of which do not use that fuel.
New
reactor designs offer a generational leap in terms of cost and safety, but proponents have so far struggled to secure the billions of dollars in funding that renewables are getting.
In a scientific community that is starting to talk about fusion in terms of pennies per kilowatt - hour, General Fusion aims to build a cheaper alternative to the
multi-billion-dollar reactor designs.
Vanko has a good enough reason to hate Tony Stark: Howard Stark and his father, Anton, worked on the original
arc reactor designs together, but Howard had Anton deported.
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