Sentences with phrase «reactor designs remain»
Globally, large reactor designs remain the predominant technology.
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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.
Yet it remains to be seen whether the AP1000 will herald nuclear's next generation, especially because the reactor is on its 18th design revision and a couple of key safety questions remain unresolved.
While we are disappointed with DOE's decision to exclude Holtec from the award, we remain confident that our reactor, the SMR - 160, has the greatest potential to triumph in a global marketplace because it is designed to meet the highest expectations of safety and is uniquely engineered to compete economically with other sources of alternative energy in the evolving era of cheap fossil fuels.
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.
Lynas goes on, of course, to explain why he remains in support of harnessing nuclear energy, particularly through advanced reactor designs that don't come with the waste stream and complexity of the light - water reactor design that dominates the industry today — overgrown terrestrial versions of the power source in nuclear submarines.
And nuclear power is just as sustainable as any other power source — even if we only use conventional nuclear fast reactor designs, there is enough uranium in the oceans and on land (recoverable at prices that allow the fuel costs of fast reactors to remain the same as today — which is trivial) to last for 5 billlion years, the expected time remaining fo our sun.
It remains to be seen if Taylor's reactor design will succeed in the real world.
The reactor's steel - clad metal - alloy fuel would remain in place for the design's 30 - year operating lifetime.