Sentences with phrase «reactor fleet»

Virtually the entire U.S. nuclear reactor fleet participated in this program by using fuel fabricated with low enriched uranium from the Megatons to Megawatts program.

But it is increasingly clear that China's partnership with Westinghouse to build its most recent nuclear reactor design — the AP - 1000 — may provide the technology blueprint for the bulk of the country's future reactor fleet.

But the lack of discussions of nuclear energy in the main ministerial meeting leaves off the table important questions about how to manage the world's existing reactor fleet given rising competition from cheap natural gas and concerns about safety and security.

The Swedish reactor fleet as a whole has reached just past its halfway point of production, and has a remaining potential production of up to 2100 TWh.

In recent years it supplied half of the U235 for the US's power reactor fleet by down blending surplus weapons grade HEU.

According to GNF's Vexler, for example, ATF offers «superior safety margin to address a beyond - design - basis event and the potential for more cost - effective operation of the existing boiling water reactor fleet,» he said.

Such «mixed oxide» fuel has not proved popular in the broader nuclear reactor fleet, although France continues to pursue it, with the U.S. soon to follow.

An Argonne National Laboratory scientist recently estimated that the cost premium for reprocessing spent fuel would range from 0.4 to 0.6 cents per kilowatt - hour — corresponding to an extra $ 3 to $ 4.5 billion per year for the current U.S. nuclear reactor fleet.

Plagued by cost overruns, construction delays, and a dearth of private investment interest, the world's nuclear reactor fleet is aging quickly as new reactor connections struggle to keep up with retirements.