Sentences with phrase «reactor operating life»
«The NRC is a full participant into the ongoing research examining whether it's technically feasible to consider «second» renewals to extend reactor operating life,» Burnell says.
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«It makes no sense to me to continue to operate a decaying nuclear reactor within 25 miles of New York City where nearly 10 million people live,» Sanders said.
Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.
«By allowing this reactor to continue operating with equipment that can not perform its only safety function, the NRC is putting people living around Indian Point at elevated and undue risk,» Lochbaum writes.
He observed that there are ways to extend the lives of existing reactors, but upgrades get progressively more expensive, and certain components, like reactor pressure vessels, can not be replaced, so renewed operating licenses are only prolonging the inevitable.
We are pleased to announce that Holtec International's engineers and scientists have successfully modified the core of the Company's SMR - 160 small modular reactor to increase the cycle life (operating period between successive refuelings) to nearly 4 years from 3-1/2 years previously achieved using a conventional design.
So by operating a reactor on pure thorium and uranium - 233, you can avoid producing the kind of long - lived waste that needs a place like Yucca Mountain.