Sentences with phrase «reactor power station»

The decision has been made to begin the construction in France of a 1,200 - megawatt breeder - reactor power station.

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Russ» team is charged with the design of the advanced fuel assemblies and reactor cores for the power stations that provide about 7 % of U.S. electricity capacity and more internationally.

BUCHANAN, N.Y. (AP / WCBS 880)-- The Indian Point nuclear power station was entirely off the grid Friday after a non-radioactive leak forced operators to close the only reactor that was running.

Each day, some two billion gallons of water are pumped from Long Island Sound into the Millstone Power Station in Waterford, Conn. — that state's only nuclear power plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating reacPower Station in Waterford, Conn. — that state's only nuclear power plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating reStation in Waterford, Conn. — that state's only nuclear power plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating reacpower plant — and used to help cool systems and support the station's two operating restation's two operating reactors.

A few days after the nuclear crisis began to unfold at the Fukushima power station in Japan, Singh, who also serves as minister in charge for atomic energy, ordered a safety review of all 20 nuclear power plants and a half dozen research reactors owned and operated by the government.

As with all nuclear power stations in Japan, the reactors are fitted with quake sensors that shut them down automatically at the first sign of potentially hazardous tremors.

This transfer of energy between particles with different speed limits is called Cherenkov radiation, and it makes the reactor pools of nuclear power stations glow with a bluish light.

Five nuclear power stations in Britain use first - generation Magnox reactors, with steel pressure vessels.

By JUAN MATTHEWS and COLIN ENGLISHSafety inspectors threatened to close down the oldest commercial nuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on working.

Safety inspectors threatened to close down the oldest commercial nuclear power stations in England and Wales last year unless the company operating them, Nuclear Electric, could confirm that the steel pressure vessels surrounding the reactors were fit enough to go on working.

The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate gave the green light to Nuclear Electric to restart reactor 2 at Bradwell power station in Essex.

Across China, 28 reactors are being built, many of them AP1000s, including one nearing completion at the Sanmen Nuclear Power Station in Zhejiang Province.

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories is a leader in sciences that are foundational to reactor safety — including the ability to predict the lifetimes of critical components used in nuclear power stations around the world, especially those in CANDU reactors.

According to a report on Fredricksburg.com, It could be another six months before Dominion power company makes a final decision on the design it will use for a proposed third reactor at North Anna Power Stapower company makes a final decision on the design it will use for a proposed third reactor at North Anna Power StaPower Station.

On Friday the artist will sign a contract to buy the Mülheim - Kärlich reactor, a decommissioned nuclear power station near Koblenz, Germany.

On April 26th 1986 there was an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, reactor number four spewed out huge amounts of radiation contaminating soil, water and atmosphere with the radiation A new show The Unseen: The Red Forest opens at the end of the month at the Continue Reading»

Construction of a large number of nuclear power stations using the latest reactor designs.

Government can place two or three nuclear reactors on each power station site, depending on the type and configuration it chooses.

Also, power stations may go offline due to insufficient water available for cooling — 25 % of nuclear reactors in the US are already affected.

Meanwhile, the north of China famously struggles with a lack of water, something nuclear power stations require plenty of to keep reactors cool, and the east coast, where there is plenty of water, is home to China's most developed cities, which are increasingly turning to NIMBY - ism.

These would produce enough power to replace five large nuclear power stations, tellingly at about the same time as the first of the much - touted new generation of reactors is likely to come on stream.

Consequently, there are now 17 nuclear power stations around the earthquake - prone Japanese archipelago, comprising 54 nuclear reactors that provide 30 percent of Japan's total electricity generating capacity.

[281] According to Macquarie Research, by 2016 Ukraine will construct and commission new solar power stations with a total capacity of 1.8 GW, almost equivalent to the capacity of two nuclear reactors.

150 AP1000 reactors would be en ought to completely replace all coal burning power stations.

Solar reactors don't include the large power block of a CSP plant, which is a full thermal power station producing electricity (except with heat supplied by the sun).

In the USA «in - situ decommissioning», that is the entombment of nuclear power stations cost US$ 73 million for two reactors.

At stake is the status of the state's nuclear power reactors, efforts to revive renewable energy development in the state, and initiatives to build microgrids, electric vehicle charging stations and energy storage facilities.

All they needed was the Pickering nuclear power station (CANDU reactors) to be upgraded.

What strikes me as funny is this: There are no tsunamis hundreds of miles from the coast, obviously, so the government constructs test situations in which a hydro power station further upstream fails fatally and the resulting wave then floods the reactor.